LOOKING-GLASS. 
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is entitled to the firft place among the profeffors of 
Phyfiology. 
Huart’s work, with all his undigefted ideas, is worth 
readings for, if he makes no frefh difcoveries, fe- 
veral excellent paffages, taken from Ariftotle, Ga- 
len, and Hippocrates, are produced by him in fup- 
port of his curious remarks, 
Philip May gave few intimations. 
But La Chambre was a judicious writer, who 
fucceeded in defcribing pailionate characters fo 
well, that, while reading his defcriptions, we cannot 
help regretting the omiffion of proper engravings. 
Jean de Hagen’s portrait in the frontifpiece of 
his Treatife makes an impreffion. We need fay 
no more, than that both are worth a glance, efpe- 
cially as he has copied from other matters. 
Marbitius attempted to found a new fytlem for 
the arrangement of human features, which, abfurd 
as it appears, has been adopted by a modern writer. 
His Etfay is entitled, De Varietate Facei Humance ; 
and printed at Drefden in 1675. 
Parfons is a claffic author, whofe works Buffon 
and Haller took the trouble to abridge ; for, not- 
withftanding any imperfeClions, nobody has excel- 
led him in treating the moveable traits, — the muf- 
cles of the face, and language of the paffions. 
Jacob Bohme, an obfcure Deift, was a clofe ob- 
ferver of Nature, whofe expreffions were familiar 
to him 5 and he knew how to lift into the meaning 
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