Essays on physiognomy. ... for the promotion and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; tr. by Thomas Holcroft.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Date:
- 1806
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on physiognomy. ... for the promotion and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; tr. by Thomas Holcroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![iiave blue c}’cs ln thosc c’ountrics I bis isthc iiiorr wortliy inquiry, bccause tlu re are iio |j(ople aiore eflcmmate, Juxurious^ peaceable, or indolent, tban the Cbinese. Choleric men liave eyes of every colour, but niore brown, and inclined to green, tban blue, 'l’hiti propensity to green isalmost a deeisive tokcn ob ardour, fire, and eonrage. 1 bave never inet vviib elear blue eyes in the me- lancbülic, seldoin in the eholeiie; but niost in the phlcginatic tein[)erainent, whieh, bovvever, had inuch activity, hcn the under arch descrlbcd by the iqiper eyelid is perfeetly eireidar, it always ilenotes good- ness and tcnderness, but also lear, tiinidity and M'eakness. 'J'he open eye, not coinpressed, forming a long acute angle vvith the nose, l have bnt seldoni seen, exeept in acute and understanding persons. IJithertü 1 havc seen no cyc, where the eyelid fonned a horizontal line over the pupil, that did not ajipcrtain to a very acute, able, subtle man ; but be it understood, that l have met with this eye in very worthy men, but men ob great pene- tration and Simulation. Wide, o[>en eyes, with the white seen under the apple, 1 have ölten observed in the tiinid and j)hlegmatic, and also in the courageoiis and rash. When compared, however, the biery and the bee- ble, the determined and the undetermintd, will casily be distinguished. l'he 1‘oriner are more firm, more stronglv delineated, have less obliquitv, have thicker, beiter cut, but less skinny eyelids. A D ]) I-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
