Your luck's in your hand, or The science of modern palmistry : chiefly according to the systems of D'Arpentigny and Desbarrolles, with some account of the gipsies / by A.R. Craig.

  • Craig, A. R.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Your luck's in your hand, or The science of modern palmistry : chiefly according to the systems of D'Arpentigny and Desbarrolles, with some account of the gipsies / by A.R. Craig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an instinctive knowledge of real life, cultivation of physical strength, a genius for calculation, the indus- trial and mechanical arts, the applied sciences, natural and experimental science, administration, etc. Vau- canson, Constantin, and Perier had fingers greatly spatuled. As the smooth fingers proceed by inspiration, pas- sion, instinct, intuition, and the double-knotted fingers by calculation, reason, deduction, and probabilities, the hand with smooth fingers will especially excel in the locomotive arts and the applied sciences, in which spontaneous dexterity and genius prevail over com- bination. Prince Jules de Polignac was fond of hunting, travel- ling, riding, and bodily exercises. His temperament was sanguine; he had an aquiline nose and ruddy complexion; his shoulders were large, his chest promi- nent, his stature tall, but the lower part of his body corresponded not with the other—large feet, crooked legs, a certain rusticity, the awkward gait of a swan out of water. Such had been his strength in youth and his agility, that in Kussia, having been attacked by a bear, he overcame and slew it. Another time, a troop of great mountain-dogs, that some boors of the Oural had hounded against him, came to the same end. At last, one day, without knowing how to swim, and only to give scope to his superabundant energy, he betted that he would cross the Volga at its greatest width, without any other help than a hand supporting his chest, which he accomplished. Such athletes are
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