looking-glass. 
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From this contour an able Phyfiognomift might 
aifo judge of the general charadlers of a crowd, 
and, therefore, it cannot be too frequently drawn, 
meafured, and obferved in every polfibje light ; for 
it efcapes the fiiil glance ; but habit will render it 
more perceptible in proper fubjefts. For inftance ; 
in a Roman Catholic church, when priefts ftoop 
with their bald crowms, interefting remarks might 
be made on their bare upper circle ; for fo much 
does this part differ in a multitude, that a profeffor 
of Phyfiognomy, like Lavatcr^ would diftinguifli by 
it the various defcriptions of people affembled at 
his door. 
Indeed, it is not eafy -to obferve young men well, 
whilfe they are awake and feelingly alive in the 
buflle of bufinefs. 
For that reafon, they ought to be watched in thofe 
unguarded hours of deep, when they, particularly 
children, betray by their attitudes the harmony of 
the body, face, fkin, and limbs. 
Even the manfions of the dead might be vifited, 
becaufe their faces acquire, in eternal reft, fuch an 
expreffive compofure as is not perceptible in any 
other filuation, nor till they have ceafed to breathe. 
A man is more or lefs ftrained or diftorted with 
the agitations of this world ; but in his coffin, if 
unchanged by violent convulfions, he becomes a 
fit fubjeff for ftudents of Phyfiognomy, who exercife 
no imaginary cruelty. 
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