American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, כרך 10Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 |
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עמוד
... less ob- lique , better shaped , and more firm . The eye - brows are essential in the ex- pression of the eyes ; in anger they are brought down and contracted ; in all plea- sant sensations , and in astonishment , they assume a fine ...
... less ob- lique , better shaped , and more firm . The eye - brows are essential in the ex- pression of the eyes ; in anger they are brought down and contracted ; in all plea- sant sensations , and in astonishment , they assume a fine ...
עמוד
... less enterprising disposition ; when the extremes are re- mote from each other , the sensations of the possessor are sudden and violent . White eye - brows are demonstrative of weakness , in the same degree that the dark - brown are of ...
... less enterprising disposition ; when the extremes are re- mote from each other , the sensations of the possessor are sudden and violent . White eye - brows are demonstrative of weakness , in the same degree that the dark - brown are of ...
עמוד
... less com . mon than flat and perpendicular ; the character they denote is equally uncom mon . " " The ancients , who studied the phy siognomy of man , supposed that diminu- tive short teeth , betrayed the weakness of those who possessed ...
... less com . mon than flat and perpendicular ; the character they denote is equally uncom mon . " " The ancients , who studied the phy siognomy of man , supposed that diminu- tive short teeth , betrayed the weakness of those who possessed ...
עמוד
... less strongly in form and structure , appear to resist for a certain time the laws which govern in- animate matter , and even to act on sur- rounding objects in a manner quite con- trary to these laws , we employ the ex- pressions of ...
... less strongly in form and structure , appear to resist for a certain time the laws which govern in- animate matter , and even to act on sur- rounding objects in a manner quite con- trary to these laws , we employ the ex- pressions of ...
עמוד
... less general powers , which presuppose organization , but which do not seem to be necessary results of struc- ture , those of sensation and voluntary motion are the most remarkable , and ex- ert the greatest influence over the other ...
... less general powers , which presuppose organization , but which do not seem to be necessary results of struc- ture , those of sensation and voluntary motion are the most remarkable , and ex- ert the greatest influence over the other ...
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