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lavater’s 
tain, flaflied with lightning fufficient to embellifli, 
raivage, or deftroy a world ! 
And in fuch a point of view, how expreffive 
is that grove which crowns the brow of a hill 
devoted to meditation ! 
The neck, without exprelllng a man’s thoughts, 
indicates what he is going to fay, with the freedom, 
eafe, and dignity becoming his rank on earth ; for 
it , is a Itrong pillar, that may be confidered as an 
emblem of power and dominion. 
Whenever this part has its defeffs, it is a fign of 
weaknefs. 
The human countenance is an image of the 
D eity, containing the refleefion of his foul. 
His forehead is a table of brafs, on which various 
fentiments are engraven in indelible chara 61 ers ; 
that is, the feat of joy and melancholy, wifdom and 
ignorance, honour and fliame, honefty and deceit. 
His brows are covered with an arch like a rain- 
bow, — the fignal of peace when it is at reft; but 
its diforder denotes agitations of the mind. This 
leatLire has a peculiar grace when the circle is re- 
gularly drawn. 
The nofe is a land-mark, like a mountain that 
feparates two vallies. 
The eyes appear to be of glafs, confequently 
windows for the foul ; tranfparent globes, fources 
of light and life: their ftiape deferves particular at- 
tention in forming an idea or likenefs of a perfon, 
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