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spectator, by transferring them upon copper from a steel 

 plate, and having added to each of two pair of them, a 

 nose in one case directed to the right, and in the other, to 

 the left, and to each of the other two pairs a very small 

 portion of the upper part of the nose, all the four pair of 

 eyes lost their front direction, and looked to the right or 

 to the left, according to the direction of the nose, or of the 

 portion of it which was added. 



But the effect thus produced is not limited, as Dr. 

 Wollaston remarks, to the mere change in the direction of 

 the eyes, " for a total difference of character may be given 

 to the same eyes by a due representation of the other 

 features. A lost look of devout abstraction in an uplifted 

 countenance may be exchanged for an appearance of 

 inquisitive archness in the leer of a younger face 

 downwards and obliquely towards the 

 Fig. 27, 28. This, 

 expression of t-lr* * 

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