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lavater’s 
yet the confequent ftate of mind was vifible in the 
countenance^ and fome change in the body. 
On many occafions a man may be known by one 
expreffive chara£lerif}ic fign at leafl j his leading 
teatLires are fuPnciently plain to denote his ruling 
palhon ; for often the forehead, nofe, lips, and eyes 
alone, or Avell-aflbrted with other traits, exprefs 
either folidity or inconflancy, vivacity or coldnefs, 
' fagacity or ftupidity, love or hatred. 
But, as we have before obferved, every trial of 
ikill in penetrating a man’s charadler ought to be 
attended with continual examinations of the mofl 
diminutive parts of his Phyfiognomy, which muft 
be feparately compared with the whole and corref- 
ponding appendages, or the moft minute exprelTions 
of mother Nature. 
In learning early to diftinguifli candour from du- 
plicity, a good pupil will be foon enabled to 
fee through thofe faces which, like wax, admit 
every frefli impreffion ; and fince they are fo foft 
and pliable, it mull; be lefs difficult for him to fore- 
tel the changes incident to them according to cir- 
cumftances. In the mean time, he will fav to him- 
felf,— That face was formed to wear perpetual 
fmiles ; and another does not fit fuch a man, as, 
from his infancy, has lucked the milk of human 
kindnefs. 
To this it might be faid, — The moll: quiet man 
).iving is fometimes fubjefl to fits of paffion, like 
another 
