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lavater’s 
7th. He ihoiild pay the fame attention to the 
three quarters of the outlines upon a (ketch thus fe- 
parately confidered. 
8th. Nor ought he to belefs'attentive in reviewing 
and comparing every fuch part as changes its ap- 
pearance in a profile taken from a fide view. 
Befides, if you look at the face length-ways, and 
then turn it about, fo as only to lee the exterior out- 
line of the bones, jutting out at the cheeks and 
eyes, you will be able to read through a man’s foul, 
and difeover his real chara6ter according to the rules 
of Phyfiognomy. 
Whatever originality or extraordinary feature he 
may polfefs, will break out in the folid parts and 
ftrong lineaments ; but the impreffions of his habits, 
and acquired talents, will be found (tamped upon 
his lips, according as he moves or fpeaks ; for there 
the image of the mind refleas its agitations, repofe, 
and refleaions, by indubitable figns, keeping pace 
with every (ituation and fentiment. 
In the next place let us enlarge our piaure, and 
dwell upon the dignity of Man ; for, as Buffon, 
the French Pliny, fays, “ fur la face augufte cle 
I’homme eft imprime le caractere de fa dignite.” 
The Forehead. 
The Forehead is that part of the face which ex- 
tends from the foremoft roots of the hair down to 
the eye-brows, and the root of the nofe. 
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