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•the Mufcles, which are proper to exprefs that Eaflion, 
are alone aduated 5 and when it increafes to an im- 
moderate Weeping, there are not wanting Concuf- 
flons of the Diaphragm here too, as well as in im- 
moderate Laughter 5 fo that there may be fa id to be 
a reciprocal Commerce between the Diaphragm and 
the Mufcles of the Face, not only to demonftrate 
thefe Paffions, but indeed all others we fee imprinted 
on the Countenance, by means of the nervous Sym- 
pathy between them. 
VI. 
From the Phil. Tranf. N°. 153. p. 395, being an 
Extrad of the twenty-fourth Differtation of Spans 
Recherche s curieufes , &c. printed at Lyons 1 6 8 3 . in 
4/0. it is eafy to fee what a flight Foundation they 
formerly had for their Notions of the Matter : “ We 
cC learn, fays he, the Ufe of ancient Medals, Pidures, 
and Statues (of which Varro> J. Ctefar , and Alex- 
IC ander Sevens \ were great Coliedors) as relating 
“ to other Studies, fo efpccially to Phyfiognomy, 
iC Nature having imprinted in the Countenance cer- 
cc tain Airs and Conformations, which difeover the 
“ grand Inclinations of the Mind, In this Art the 
' rfc famous Campanella was a great Matter, as Mr. 
“ Choner relates in the Life of Boifet. Hence 
“ Nifius Erythrms tells us, that B. Stephanius the 
<c Poet had the fame Features with the Statues of 
cc Virgil . Others obferve, that Numa Bompilius 
iC and Antoninus Bius refembled each other in Face 
“ and Manners; and that the Chancellor Hofpit alius , 
“ a great Philofopher, was like the Figure of Arijlotle . 
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