An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart (1873) (14756150276)

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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d colour, en-rapture your soul and raise you to a sphere sublime. Never ijlane aboard or dravr an angle; round off the angles of both the material andmental sharp points you encounter; curl your hair, if it is not naturallywavey; when you meet others, sweep gracefully round and past them;clap your wings (or elbows) close to your sides, and gracefully sweeppast those you meet, though you abnegate your natural feeling of takmg•^ the right of way ; and lastly, like a Nero determined to prove him-self so, bend every thought to the rounding off of the sharp points andangularity of your own mentality, and, like a practised and wary pdot,ste°er clear of the ffukes, dodges, and elbows of others. BENEFICENTNESS. THE INCLINATION TO DO GOOD. The long face joined to a recedmrj forehead and a prominent nose arenatures intimation of a naturally beneficent individual Peter Cooper liasthe above form of features, and he annually educates several hundredchildren free of cost in the city of New Yorl:
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Eeneficentness small.^\ji Australian man. Eeneficentness large.Peter Cooper. 140 BENEFICENTNESS. 1. Only actuated by some selfish aim or end. You would contributenothing for the relief of the needy were you possessed of the wealthof the Indies. You are as innocent of charitable feeling as John Elwesor Daniel Dancer, both noted misers. As Pollok has it:— With eye awry, incurable, and wild.The laughing-stock of devils and of men,And by your guardian angel quite given up. 2. To render a service and confer a benefit would not half so muchgratify you as to injure and disoblige. The silent digestion of onewrong provokes a second in you, as Stern beautifully hits your pro-pensity. 3. Having little active goodness or charity in your nature, youscarcely ever perform a beneficent action, being so thoroughly wrappedup in your own sweet self. Baxter was thinking of you when he said:—** Selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet selfish pleasure is the chiefpart of your interest. 4. The gifts