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fliould our knowledge of proportions be acquired 
only from books, but practice ; in meafuring theni 
under the eyes of able mafters, who will point 
out the caule of fo many imperfefl: defigns, and coii- 
fequently falfe eftimates of Nature’s works, founded 
on an old-flanding negleff of difcriminating be- 
tween ftraight and crooked lines. 
When all parts of the vifage and body are har- 
monized with perpendicular lines, not only beauty, 
but even found fenfe, a dignified charafler, and 
other qualities, are generally found to correfpond 
with this fymmetry, or any other that may be ob- 
ferved in an oppolite direction. 
3dly. The particular figns and charadters ftamped 
upon the face are to be no lefs attentively confi- 
de red. 
In drawing faces, a Painter and Phyfiognomift 
fliould begin with fuch as have ftriking traits, pe- 
culiar to judges or philofophers, as well as to idiots 
and men of feeling, or others of a quite different 
defcription. 
Such a charatter muft be thoroughly ftudied in 
all points of view, juft as if we were to draw his 
picture from the life, to be conftantly compared 
with the living original. Not only the fiaturc, but 
every part of fuch a perfon, mull be well examined, 
juft as if the meafure of the whole proportions were 
to be taken by perpendicular and horizontal lines, 
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