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ec who have paffed by me: When I fee a Man with 
te a four riveli'd Face, I cannot forbear pitying his 
* e Wife; and when I meet with an open ingenuous 
ic Countenance, think on the Happinefs of his Friends, 
u his Family and Relations. — I think we may be 
<c better known by our Looks than by our Words; 
tc and that a Man's Speech is much more eafily dif- 
tc guifed than his Countenance. In this Cafe how- 
u ever, I think the Air of the whole Face is much 
Ci more expreffive than the Lines of it : The Truth 
<c of it is, the Air is generally nothing elfe but the 
cc inward Difpofition of the Mind made vifible." 
XVI. 
This Maxim I am now about to prove to you in 
a few Words, by anfwering an Objection made to 
me on that Sentiment; “ A Gentleman agreed with 
me, that the Mufcles of the Face obey'd and ex- 
preffed the different Paffionsof the Mindoccafianally, 
but that, when the Caufe of that Paffion ceafes, the 
Face refumes its natural Pofition, and that Paffion 
appears no more for that time." 
XVIL 
To this I anfwer, ift , That every Perfon has a par- 
ticular Bent or "Difpofition of Mind, which oftener 
reigns in him than any other ; zdly , That this ha- 
bitual Difpofition, caufmg the Mufcles of the Face, 
that are deftined to exprefs it, frequently to a Et in 
Obedience to that Bent of Mind, brings on at length 
an habitual Appearance of that Paffion in the Face., 
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