Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft ; to which are added, One hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater ; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.

  • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft ; to which are added, One hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater ; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XU I'AGE Extracts from other authors . .341 BufFon , . tb. Professor Kant ..... 346 VVinkelmann , 349 >1. de Paux 350 Lentz .... . 352 Camper ...... 353 Man of Literature at Darmstadt . . 354 Physiognomy of towns and places . . . 359 Conclusion of national physiognomy . . . 3 60 Resemblance between parents and children . . .361 General remarks ..... ii. Remarks on the opinions of Buffon, Haller, and Bonnet, concern- ing the resemblance between parents and children . . 366 Extracts from Bonnet .... 367 Observations on the new-born, the dying, and the dead . . 370 Of the influence of countenance on countenance . . 371 On the influence of the imagination on the countenance . . 374 The effects of the imagination on the human form . . 376 On certain individual parts of the human body . . 379 The forehead ..... i&. The eyes 383 The eyebrows . . • • • 389 The nose . . • • • -390 The mouth and lips .... 392 Teeth . • • • • -395 Chin . . . . • • .396 Women . . • . . ib. Male and female . . . • • 400 A word on the physiognomonical relation of the sexes 402 Of the physiognomy of youth .... 403 A word to travellers . . • • • 405 A word to princes and judges . . • • 409 A word to the clergy . • • .412 Miscellaneous countenances . • 413 Physiognomonical denominations of countenances elucidated . tb. Miscellaneous thoughts . • • • Additions . • • • . • 418 On the hair . . . • ■ 419