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advifes every ftudent to compofe a fcale of them for 
his own ufe, perfedtly regular, and founded on im 
variable mathematical rules. 
It is alfo a matter of importance to know what 
charadters are moft truly reprefented by fliades, 
and appear in their true light. We fliall find that 
lively people are drawn fo in a more faithful man- 
ner than thofe who are mere paffive and feeling 
beings. 
Moreover, in learning to read faces, it fhould be 
the Undent’s delight to draw profiles in all ways 
from Nature, trufling to his memory, fometimes, 
fo far as to add an eye, a mouth, or another fea- 
ture, wanted to turn them into full faces ; as he 
might do, for paftime or infirudtion, while he fifted 
into the meaning of thofe pofitive figns which he 
ftrove to copy, in various points of view, as a fund 
for his experiments. 
He would, likewife, derive equal pleafure and 
advantage from a repetition of his efiays to analyfe 
the inofl; impenetrable or unintelligible vifage, by fe- 
parating every feature from the complicated mafs. 
The bafe of that frontifpiece of furprifing archi- 
tedture contains the fum-total of the outlines cen- 
tering in the Ikull, and all the ramifications darting 
from the crown of the head. Upon this principle, 
experience proves what reafon fiiews, — that this 
fundamental line in a hearty man exprefies the 
degree of his capacity and perfedlion. 
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