HUMAN PHYSIOGNOMY; OB, HOW TO DISCERN THE CHARACTER F A MAN BY EXTERNAL APPEARANCES. PART I. OF CORPOREAL PHYSIOGNOMY----LAVATER’s ANALYZA- TION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN BODY---- OF THE DIFFERENT TEMPERAMENTS, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO PHYSIOGNOMY. “ Her pure and eloouent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, Tuat one could almost say her body thought.” What numerous beauties in human nature lie unregarded merely for want of being observed, and how many more are hidden to us for want of an interpreter! We instinctively gain a familiar acquaintance with the superficial qualities of our nature while we are yet too young to reason upon them, and but too commonly we view them ever after in a vague manner as tkinfft of course. But, let us a moment reflect that nothing in creation is “ a thing of course,” that all has been devised by the same Omniscient Mind, and executed by the same Omnipotent Arm, and that beauty must be its model, and perfection its stamp. Physiognomy, or the language of looks, is known and felt by all; and we are persuaded that a short treatise on the subject, embracing the experience of one of the most eminent philosophers of the old world, will bo received with favor. We are all Physiognomists by nature ; for we aro iu- •uncuvely impressed with an idea of the mental and moral
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