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The firll is from the forehead to the eye-brows, 
the fecond is downwards to the noftrils, and the 
third reaches to the peak of the chin. 
The more thefe divifions are marked on the coun- 
tenance, fo that their fymmetry is ftriking, the great- 
er ground appears to expeft drong intellefts, wdth a ' 
regular difpohtion or turn of mind. 
An eccentric genius is feldom damped with the 
lines that didinguifli thofe three divifions ; but their 
equality will be found, more or lefs, upon all faces, 
when they are meafured with a fofter implement 
than a rule. 
The following principles mud be adopted in 
dudying the Phydognomy. 
Id. The vifage fhould be compared with the 
whole body._ 
2d. The dudent is to obferve whether it is oval, 
round, or fquare, or of a mixed form. 
3d. He mud examine it in a perpendicular point 
of view, according to the three dividons adopted. 
4th. He mud condder attentively the chara6ler 
and expredion of leading features, feen at fome dif- 
tance. 
5th. He is to attend to the fymmetry and harmo- 
ny of the whole countenance. 
6th. He is to obferve the dedgn, peculiarity, and 
diades of particular traits. 
7th. 
