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feUGtlier who is continually violent : thus the fame 
Phyfiognomy may exprels, by turns, both anger 
and good-nature. But it muft be likewife admit- 
ted, that there are features on which the damp of 
thefe oppofite tempers are too deeply imprclTed to 
be effaced by trantient impreffions. 
In this cafe, the Phyfiognomill: will difccrn every 
kind of natural didinftion, far dilferent from thofe 
eruptions of a moment which leave no trace be- 
hind j for whatever change, for the better or vvorfe, 
may originate from the manner of thinkings habit, 
and good or evil communication, a man’s foul is to 
be feen through the veil, without the polith or 
brutality received in fociety. 
It is from a perfect harmony between the lead- 
ing features that conclufions are to be drawm with- 
O 
out rifv]ue. If from the form of a mouth, or the 
found of a voice, we cannot foretel exadfly what a 
poet born is going to fay, it will not be difficult to 
form a juft conjecture refpefting what b.e would be 
capable of expreffing under fuppofed circuraftances. 
With a view to difeoveries, every interefting 
fituation muft be clofely obferved, — 1‘uch as an un- 
forefeen meeting, and firll appearance of a ttranger, 
or his departure from any circle. 
We Ihould likewife feize thofe moments for ftu- 
dying faees, when palTion is Gn the point of break- 
ing out into violence, then reftrained, and at laft 
fuppreffed, by the prefeace and influence of a re-, 
fpectable 
