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lavater’s 
of every minute diftinguifliing trait. His EfTay on 
the Four Kinds of Complexion is a jewel in the 
eyes of a good Phyfiognomift. 
Guglielmo Gratarole, a Phyfician of Bergamo, 
likevvife tranfmitted his name with honour to pof- 
terity, in a book wbofe title is, De Pradictione 
Morum N aiurar unique Hominum^ 8Tc. 
Scipio Claramontius, likewife, wrote with eafe 
and elegance, as a man who had probed the inmoft 
receffcs of the heart, and ftudied the mental facul- 
ties, in a manner that proved his informations de- 
rived from the pureft fources. Some errors of his 
predecelTors have, however, crept into his valu- 
able Treatife, De Conjectandis cujufque Moribus (ST 
Lalitantibus Animi Affectibus, which deferves to be 
perfeftly underftood by every one who ftudies the 
ufeful art of reading human faces ; but, with all 
his fcholaftic reafoning, we muft give him credit for 
new original ideas, and judicious remarks, written 
in a ftyle that exhibits a noble and liberal way of 
thinking. 
The comparifon of great men with their lives and 
pidlures, as they ftrike us in hiftory, or act their 
parts before us, would afford a perpetual fund of 
knowledge and entertainment, adapted to a falutary 
end. But the bed fchool, and where the young 
Phyfiognomift ought to finifh his ftudies, is the fo- 
ciety of honeft men, whofe virtues and perfe£fions 
he 
