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refearches, merely by handling properly his jaw- 
bone. 
Certain it is, however, that this fingle part, well 
fludied in profile, has ferved as a clue for unfolding 
extraordinar;y faculties in fome individuals, whofe 
other features were not fufficiently expreffive, nor 
proportioned to their mental power. Painters and 
defigners cannot, therefore, take too much pains 
in reprefenting this fingular feature in the moil: 
prominent light of which it is fufceptible. Thus 
they will do credit to the ufeful arts that they pro- 
fefs, in copying Nature, and reviving the obje61s of 
our love, refpedf, and veneration. 
In regard to the eye, we roufi; firft meafure its 
difiance from the radical part of the nofe, and then 
examine its fize and colour, together with the out- 
lines and compafs of the eye-lids. Ihus a coun- 
tenance becomes an objedl: of fiudy, juft as if every 
line in it were but a part of a poem to be learned by 
heart. 
In like manner, a poet would caft a glance over 
a favourite compofition, run over the chief divifions, 
and imprefs on his memory the arrangement of the 
whole, fo as foon to be able to repeat every verfe, 
by confuliing occafionally tlie book that he ad- 
mired. 
When this fundamental Phyfiognomical know- 
ledge is acquired, by fiudying the face of an ec- 
centric genius, a ftrong refemblance of it lliould be 
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