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^ light; luminous ; and it is the fa£l with regard toKli^ 

 ^ yogg* They are neither funk, prominent, half-formed, 



* nor very open ; not fo open as in the print of hira. 

 ^ His black eye-brows, which bend b2ck upon a forehead 



* which is neither flat, nor oblique, nor too much round- 



* ed, nor too mucli elevated, nor too low ; become hini 



* wonderfully. 'His nofe has an extremely {lender out- 



* line ; and is always made too thick, as the painter pro- 

 ^ ceeds in copying : The original always feemed to have 

 ^ it more pointed and delicate. The princelfes of Darm- 



* Itadt, fo worthy of the auguft rank derived from their 



* birth, and who were lingularly affected with the ierene, 



* open and natural air of this dear man ; alfured me, 

 ^ that he had tlie nofr; of their illuftrious mother ; and I 



Vknow not whetherthis excellent princefs or Kiiyogg is 

 ' moft honored by th?s conformity. — I here inform my 

 ^ readers of a fa6t colleded from an infinity of obfcrva- 



* tions. Whatever may be faid, and whatever pleafant- 

 ^ ry it may excite, it is not the lefs demondrable, that the 

 ^ Nofe^ confideredjingly ajzd independently of all the other 

 ^ features^ is the 7770ft important^ decifive^ ccnjpicuoiis and 

 "• incapable of difgitije^ of all the features which belong to 



* human phyjiogyioiny^ , 



' I return to Kiiyogg. How expreflive is the noble 

 ' repofc of his inimitable mouth ; notwithftandlng the 

 ' tone, far too hard which is given to his portrait, it 

 ' denotes calm innocence, benignity, prudence, and re- 



* ibl ution. 



' But it is his chin particularly, which I admire : an 



* air fo manly without groifneis, fb refined without fub- 



* tlety ; having no veftigc cither of effeminacy or deli- 



* cacy ! — Kiiyogg can only'gain^ he can never lofe, in 

 ' being examined by the eye of a true phyfiognomifl> 



* All the indents, all the (hades of his cheeks, diffufc over 



'his 



* Dr. GeJ<1e9, the fcriptare critic and tranflator, had a fyftern of 

 phyfiognomy founded upon nofei? ; which he divided into about twcRtjr 

 •lafies, —The celebrated I'ln-seus had another re fpe^ing eye brows, %, 



