An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart (1873) (14778984285)

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Title: An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart

Year: 1873 (1870s)

Authors: Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) DLC Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Subjects: Physiognomy

Publisher: Glasgow : Dunn & Wright, printers

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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er and renown which is inbred inyour very nature, and gnaws your vitals, may some day raise you to dis-tinction. Yours is the ambition pointed at by Byron when he says: There is a fire and motion of the soul,But, once kindled, quenchless evermore I 11. Though generally you delight in true honour and highly prizenoble fame, still there is great danger that your keen ambition will ruinyour happiness by defeating the noble efforts of your life. Penn saidquaintly: ** The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, andambitious men of the blasts of fortune, and then Shakspeare: Fling away ambition;By that.sin fell the angels: how can man then,The image of his Maker, hope to win byt ? • E 66 AMBITIOUSNESS. 12. Ambitious in the fullest and widest sense of the term, like theGreat Napoleon, the little Corporal of Corsican origin, and aspirant touniversal dominion, you have an inordinate love of power and superiority.Your intuitive aspiration and innate sense of the power to overawe and

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Ambitiousness large.A jealous dog. /ijrLbitiousness large.Horse. govern by despotic dictation would rouse the mind of every free-man tochain you to a rock and watch you gnaw the strong-linked chain youyourself had forged. Your personal ambition renders you the unique foeof liberty, and co-laborateur with the Devil. 0 cursed ambition—thou devouring bird, How dost thou from the field of honesty Pick every grain of profit or delight, And mock the reaper s toiV—Ha fard.Ambition, Proud crested fiend, the worlds worst foe,—BloomHeld.A. To Foster, Feed, and Cultivate Ambitiousness :—Eead thebiographies of Nimrod, Alexander the Great, not forgetting his fatherPhilip of Macedon; of Julius Cc^sar; of Peter the Great of Russia; ofTimur the Tartar; of jSTapoleon I.; and of his reputed nephew, NapoleonIII. Then strive to become renowned in some good cause, circumam-bulate the city for votes; shake off your listless inappetency as anencumbering garment, and feel that your character is just

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