British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, 10. köideMitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 |
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... angles and wrinkles about the eyes and in the cheeks ; and the Russians are remarkable for black and light coloured hair , and flat noses . VOL . X. It must be extremely grateful to the natives of England to reflect , that Lavater ...
... angles and wrinkles about the eyes and in the cheeks ; and the Russians are remarkable for black and light coloured hair , and flat noses . VOL . X. It must be extremely grateful to the natives of England to reflect , that Lavater ...
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... angles with the horizon ; but he thinks he has been thus led to the discovery of the maxi- mum and minimum of this angle . He commenced his operations with the mon- key , and proceeded with the Negro and European ; and , finally , he ...
... angles with the horizon ; but he thinks he has been thus led to the discovery of the maxi- mum and minimum of this angle . He commenced his operations with the mon- key , and proceeded with the Negro and European ; and , finally , he ...
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... angles . Lavater appears to have been the first who attended to the peculiar turns of the position and outline of the forehead , which he considered the most important part presented for the study of the physi- ognomist . This he ...
... angles . Lavater appears to have been the first who attended to the peculiar turns of the position and outline of the forehead , which he considered the most important part presented for the study of the physi- ognomist . This he ...
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... angle with the nose ; and when the eye - lid forms a horizontal line over the pupil , it is a strong indication that he who possesses it is subtle , able , and penetrating . Widely opening lids , shewing the white of the ball under the ...
... angle with the nose ; and when the eye - lid forms a horizontal line over the pupil , it is a strong indication that he who possesses it is subtle , able , and penetrating . Widely opening lids , shewing the white of the ball under the ...
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... angles by which they some . times arise , and their communications with each other , are enumerated an.ong the cir . cumstances which retard the course of the arterial blood . But it must be remember . ed , that in viewing these ...
... angles by which they some . times arise , and their communications with each other , are enumerated an.ong the cir . cumstances which retard the course of the arterial blood . But it must be remember . ed , that in viewing these ...
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