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lure of the inward cafe. Afterwards the lar2:e 
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jUhouelle is hung up, perpeadicularly, to ferve as 
a model for the fmaller profile. 
It is by the frequent practice of defigning, ac- 
companied with remarks and comparifons drawn 
from the Lavaterian fchool, that a gradual improve- 
ment may be made by any youth qualified and dif- 
pofed to excel, while^at ev.ery flep he feels convinc- 
ed how much the flightdt deviation turns a portrait 
into a caricature. 
When a collection of fuch profiles is procured of 
well-drawn charadfers, they fliould be claffed under 
proper heads; but the line of diliincHon between 
them muft not be formed by refped for intellectual 
powers, or moral qualities, but wholly from a view 
of Phyfiognomical anr.logy ; for, whatever traits may 
characterize men for their talents and virtues, there 
is fuch an infinite variety of excellence and imper- 
fections under general denominations, that we are 
warranted in prefuming a arpportioned unlikenefs 
of their outward fignifieant imns of merit, Confe- 
quently it would be the greateft abfurdity to clafs 
together two heads of men of genius, merely be- 
caufe they were of that defeription, without any 
other refemblance,'' as a ground of expectation for 
finding them alike ; for, probably, they would not 
refemble in the leaft, or form a perfect contralt to, 
each other. 
But 
