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guage, expreffed in too plain terms to be mifun- 
derllood or called otherwife than infpiration. 
In this ftudy there is no remark too triBing to be 
made upon the difference of ftature, and other dif- 
■ timSlions of the human race, peculiar to various 
countries and claffes. Nor muft the voice pafs un- 
noticed ; for, as the Italians mention it in their de- 
fcription of a perfon in paffports, fo ought we to 
diflinguifli a fweet or harfli founds in order to dif* 
cover what particular voices are fuited to particular 
beads, difpofitions, and characfers. 
Every Phyfiognomy has its own peculiar expref- 
fion, in addition to general charadferiftic figns : — 
for inftance j all thinkers have not fuch fedate 
countenances as clearly announce ferious refledfion, 
except by knitting their brows ; nor even is be- 
nevolence expreffed by fome people otherwife than 
by a fmile, or a grin, while they mark difpleafure 
only by triangular lines in the cheeks, &c. 
But, in attending to appearances of fatisfa6Hon 
or difcontent, we fhould diftinguifh between natural 
and forced, or accidental diffortions. 
Accidents have been reprefented as forming an 
infurmountable bar to the fludy of Phyfiography ; 
but furely a child knows natural marks from others, 
— as in the fmall-pox, a diforder that fpoils fome 
fair faces, without injuring the form. 
Indeed, in fome cafes, a fall has been attended 
with mental derangement, but no flriking deformity ; 
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