An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart (1873) (14756299156)

Identifier: originalillustra00simm (find matches)
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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or circumstancesdisprove them; live sparingly on light diet, and associate with intel-lectual and intuitive people; read the works of Swedenborg, HerbertSpencer, and Stuart Mill; and reject no new idea until thoroughlyinvestigated. B. To Discourage and Repress Intuitional Capacity:—Spendmost of your time in gsij, fashionable, thoughtless society; live sumptu-ously on eggs, oysters, pork, butter, honey, cake, pie, Devonshire creamand pudding; drink tea, coffee, chocolate, wine, stout, ale, gin, rum, andwhisky; use tobacco and opium; sleep ten or twelve hours each day,and you will soon smother the babes of intuition in their lovely innocence.By following the above directions, you may crush out the intuitionalcapacity, as is daily done by thousands, but bear in mind that it is sel-dom necessary to restrain this power. LllTllATlVENLSS. 195 LITERATIVENESS. THE SKILL OF PRODUCING WRITTEN LANGUAGE. A fall broad hijh forehead ivith a pyr(form face are signs of excdlcncein written lawjuage.
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Literativeness small.Mr Thomas Kogerson, a very (speaker but poor writer. Literativeness large.;ood Jolin Ruskin, a brilliant author and art critic. 1. The more you try to write the oftener you expose your inability;the productions of your pen lack body, clothing, and style; and are onlyan agglomeration of misconstructions and improprieties. 2. Your ideas being muddy, misty, and hazy, your words consequentlyare ill chosen, sentences badly constructed, and hence you are a poorwriter. 3. From the barrenness and vacuity of your writings they contrast ina very unfavourable manner with those produced by men who havebecome eminent from their full, brilliant, grasping style, utterly freefrom the meagreness that pervades your every paragraph. 4. You should make no more essays to appear in print as we havealready many miserable writers. 5. Though your inherent weakness in matter and style may, bypractice, be partially removed, yet it will be a hopeless task to eradicateit thoroughly. 6. The ex