An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart (1873) (14592219988)

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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s the retiring expressionDver your countenance. More vivacity would make your body morehealthy and your life much happier. Should circumstances lure you onby prospects of great advantage you will not attempt more than yourhope will allow you to accomplish. 5. Being a little too sedate and placid you have acquired a heavinessof spirit. Had you a little more fun and jocularity in your composition,your friends and acquaintances would increase. The intense sadnessand depression of your spirits will occasionally make you miserable butyou will again spring up to a new and more cheerful state. You know,however, that * Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites ;for she frequents the poor mans hut, as well as the palace of his superior.—Shenstone. 6. Inclining at times to be demure and serious you have acquiredmuch golemni^ of manner. As are clouds to the sky so are the dismal PUYSKELPIDICITY. 37 and melancholy to you ; but when they depart all is sunshine and cheer-fulness.
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Physioelpidicity small.Dante, the Author or Paradise, Purgatory aud Hell. 7. Being happily free from the extremes of gaiety or dejection yourmoments of disconsolateness soon vanish. Steady cheerfulness and atE.even tenor, you thoroughly admire in all persons, and yet you, yourselli,are liable to elation and dejection of spirit. 8. Being naturally of a cheerful turn of mind, you will imagine yourfuture prospects to be fair and favourable. In good health, you ategenerally devoid of melancholy and oft-times even vivacious. 9. The most of your time, you are in good and often in high spirits;hence you are merry and playful in all your winning ways. If you areyoung, fairy prospects are flitting before your imagination ; if elderly oraged, your mature judgment sensibly regulates your thoughts. 10. Joy prevails over sadness in your inner life. The bright side, onreflection, always turns up and becomes manifest in your look and de-portment. Being happily so constituted that you have sufficient



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