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Obfervers fnould have confidered, that the general 
Form of the Face and Head is chiefly owing to the 
Structure of the Bones that compofe them ; and 
that a Perfon with a long Chin or Nofe, &c. may 
be either of a good or bad Turn of Mind 5 and, on 
the contrary, thofe with the befl; proportioned Faces 
may be poffefltd of unhappy as well as happy Tem- 
pers : So that, let this be as it will, it is the Altera- 
tion of the Mufcies alone that is capable of demon- 
ftrating the reigning Paflion of the Mind upon every 
Kind of Face, 
YIII. 
Some Obfervers took their Indications from the 
Tints of the Countenance, and judg'd according to 
them $ that is, from the Pale, Red, Livid, Brown, 
Yellowifh, or Olive. But, however thefe may ferve 
as Indications whereby to lead to the Knowlege of 
Difeafes, every Day's Experience fhews they can give 
no Information of the Difpofuion of the Mind 5 for 
there are, amongft Men of all Hues, both good and 
bad, cheerful and deje&ed, and the like. 
IX. 
Ariftotle , who has among his Works a particular 
Treatife upon Phyfiognomy, and which one would 
imagine has been the ground Work on which the 
Writers upon that Subjeft have raifed all they have 
faid about it, has not omitted one Circumftanee that 
might in any wife help him in his ingenious Re- 
fearches, but thofe which alone could give the true 
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