Facts or faces, or, The mutual connexion between linear and mental portraiture morally considered, and pictorially illustrated by a series of graphic heads of all the dispositions of the mind : with a dissertation on personal beauty, showing what it is, and what is mistaken for it, by a comprehensive view of constructive, ornamental, and expressive beauty, and their relative importance to each other also, an essay on complexion of character / by Thomas Woolnorth.

  • Woolnorth, Thomas.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Facts or faces, or, The mutual connexion between linear and mental portraiture morally considered, and pictorially illustrated by a series of graphic heads of all the dispositions of the mind : with a dissertation on personal beauty, showing what it is, and what is mistaken for it, by a comprehensive view of constructive, ornamental, and expressive beauty, and their relative importance to each other also, an essay on complexion of character / by Thomas Woolnorth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRIDE. are suffered to walk at large, either for incurable reasons, or that no hospital could be built large enough to contain them. But Pride is not more the infirmity of madmen than the vice of fools, since it voluntarily carries with it a load of miseries, with the eventual certainty of a fall; at the same time that mortification and self-denial attend it at every step, and punish it in all its pretensions : often it is constrained to part with that from ostentation that never could have been wrung from cha- rity, and many an inconvenient act has been extorted from pride, that never could have been obtained from principle. A proud man will owe no man any thing but ill will; offend him and he will never forgive you, hut will follow you with an expensive resentment, that would seem to have no mercy on himself. Last, but not least, there is the pride which imitates humility; and this is the most consummate and imposing; for instance, compare the behaviour of some persons at church with their behaviour out of it, and by way of experiment, only charge them with one tenth of the evils they have been lament- ing in the general confession, in order to ascertain what kind of responses they will make to you. Thus it would appear that formal acknowledgments may be admitted in the sanctuary in general terms, hut defended out of it in every particular, shew- ing the possibility of some being proud of their humility, while some are proud of then* pride, and others are too proud to own it. It has been well said, that “ Pride was never made for man,” but if he flatters himself it was, let him recollect he only has it in common with other animals; birds and beasts have it, and insects are not without it. The peacock is only the proudest bird of its kind; and when we hear talk of the conscious majesty of the war-horse, we are as frequently reminded of “ the pride of the cobler’s dog.” The aristocracy of the bee is proverbial, and even “ the trodden worm is said to turn. Hence we may trace this quality upwards, from the meanest to the proudest reptile in the proud isle which contains it; toge- ther with all the watery distinctions in the proud ocean that surrounds it.