How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart.
- Samuel R. Wells
- Date:
- 1890, ©1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![menced till you finish it; are apt to be tedious and prolix, and to ex- haust the patience of jowr hearers or readers, as well as the subject of discourse. All sudden changes are distasteful to you, and there is a tendency to a monotonous sameness in everything j^ou do. Restrain. [49.] (6.) Large.—You have great capacity for following out a train of thought and concentrating all your faculties upon one subject, and are noted for thoroughness in your studies, or in working out the details of any plan you have to execute. When you have commenced any piece of work, you wish to finish it before commencing anything else, and are annoyed by interruption or change of programme. In talking or writing you are liable, unless you take pains to guard yourself against it, to become prolix and tedious; tell long stories; are sometimes absent-minded ; very persistent and steady m any course of action dt- termined upon, and have no patience with fickleness or sudden changes of plan, Bestrain. [49.] (5.) Full.—You like to carry out to completion anything you have commenced, but are not greatly annoyed by interruption, and can lay down one thing and take up another withoutmuch disadvantage. Are tolerably thorough and patient; can concentrate your thoughts when occasion requires it, and follow out a subject in all its details, but are not inclined to be tedious or long-winded. [47.] (4.) Average.—You can concentrate your thoughts upon one thing, and dwell upon it till fully elaborated, or you can readily divert your attention to other matters ; prefer to do one thing at a time, but can have several irons in the fire at once, and attend to them all; are capa- ble of consecutive thinking, but never tedious, and generally talk or write to the point. [47.] (3.) Moderate.—You love variety; change readily from one thing to another; commence many things that you never finish; think clearly, perhaps, but not always consecutively ; lack connectedness and application, and should aim at more fixedness of mind and steadi- ness of character. Oultivate. [48.] (2.) Small.—You are inclined to be very rambling and incoherent; very ready to begin, but having too little perseverance to finish; fl}' rapidly from one thing to another, and no one ever knows where to find you, or in what mood to receive you. You talk about several things at once, and the listener is seldom much wiser for the information you seek to impart. You should have been a butterfly. Gidtwate. [48.] (1.) Yery Small.—You are made up of change and restlessness, and are never the same two minutes at a time. Cultivate. [48.] ^ XVIII.—YITATIYENESS. (7) Yery Large.—You have an astonishingly tenacious hold upon life; resist disease with the utmost determination, and will die at last](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083824_0169.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
