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be, fhort auburn or chefnut hair, growing out into 
large flowing and natural ringlets. 
Such a vifage, with eyes (hut, ought to be fludied 
in five different w^ays ; — in profile, a full face in 
front, three-fourths, feven-eighths, and, laftly, in a 
perpendicular attitude from the crown downwards 
in a direft line. 
When the whole Phyfiogncmy is prefented to 
the obferver at one full view, it diflrafits his atten- 
tion by too many objeffs, which are beft examined 
fucceflively on both fides. 
A knowledge of drawing is abfolutely neceffary 
for the art of reading and copying faces ; but whe- 
ther a learner copies from Nature, flatues, paint- 
ings, or engravings, he ought to confine himfelf to 
take fleetches, or outlines, in a manner adequate to 
the purpofe of diftinguifhing, abftradling, Amply- 
fying, and explaining confufed or intricate fea- 
tures. 
Thofc fine drawings, the celebrated PaflTions of 
Le Brun, afford fufficient proofs of the neceffity 
and utility of this After art as a companion to paint- 
ing, and a guide to Phyfiography, although it has 
been negledtcd, as much as Lavalers fcience, by 
feveral profeffors. 
But, while the ftudy of paintings in oil may be 
fafely recommended to the young Phyfiognomifl:, 
we cannot too ferioufly warn him againft the abufe 
of defigns drawn with bladk-lead pencil, and mi- 
niatures, 
