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licacy of fentiment may be expe£led, as occafional- 
ly to degenerate into a voluptuous love of pleafure. 
The Cheeks. 
The cheeks are thick and flefliy parts, fixed on 
the Tides of the vifage, extending from their lower 
round border to the outward brim of the under-jaw j 
and from the fpherical bafe to the edges of the 
nofe and lips, which are clofe to them, and form a 
part of the countenance. 
They follow the motions of the eye-lids, nofe, lips, 
and lower jaw ; and while their afpe£t is an index 
to the ftate of the body, they are equally affe£ted 
by diforders of the mind. — Grief covers them with 
wrinkles, and they are furrowed over with flu pi- 
dity. 
But, on the other hand, wifdom, experience, and 
ingenuity, (lamp all thefe outlines with fuch a po- 
lifh, as is felt, but cannot be eafily expreffed ; for a 
man’s character, in a moral, conftitutional, and intel- 
leflual fenfe, may be afcertained by the degree of 
care, brightnefs, and refinement that he has received 
in all thefe points of view. 
Let an experienced phyfiognomift examine the 
bare compafs of the feftion that reaches from the 
noftril to the chin, juft as it ftrikes him>in two ways, 
at reft and in motion; when it is agitated by tears 
or laughter, grief or mirth ; a generous fympathy, 
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