Physiognomy; or the corresponding analogy between the conformation of the features, and the ruling passions of the mind, tr. [and abridged] by S. Shaw. The title-leaf is a cancel].

1827

INTRODUCTION Physiognomy a Science The Truth of Physiognomy The Advantages of Physiognomy Its Disadvantages The Ease and Difficulty...	xii

CHAP II On the Nature of Man which is the Foun dation of the Science of Physiognomy Difference between Physiognomy and Pathognomy	25

Signs of bodily Strength and Weakness Of Health and Sickness	32

The Congeniality of the Human Form	39

Description of Plates I and II	47

The universal Excellence of the Form of Man	51

Of the Forehead	55

Of the Eyes and Eyebrows	61

Quotations from Huart with Remarks	179

Description of Plate V	211

CHAP XXXVI Physiognomonical Extracts from	225

Extracts from a Manuscript	239

Extracts from Aristotle and other Au thors concerning Beasts	254

Of Birds Fishes Serpents and In sects	269

Of Shades	276

Description of Plate VI	277

Of the Nose	68

Of the Mouth and Lips	71

Of the Teeth and Chin	75

Of Sculls	77

Of the Difference of Sculls as they	88

Description of Plate III	94

Lavaters own Remarks on National	106

Some of the most remarkable Passages	117

Extracts from the Manuscript of a	129

Description of Plate IV	137

Remarks on the Opinions of Buffon	146

Observations on the Newborn	152

Essay by a late learned Man	166

A Word to Travellers	279

A Word to Princes and Judges	285

A Word to the Clergy	288

Physiognomonical Elucidations of Countenances	290

Physiognomonical Anecdotes	293

Miscellaneous Extracts from K�mpfs Essay on the Temperaments with Remarks	295

Upon Portrait Painting	298

Description of Plate VII	308

Miscellaneous Quotations	310

Miscellaneous Thoughts	314

Of the Union between the Knowledge of the Heart and Philanthropy Miscellaneous Phy siognomonical Thoughts from Holy Writ	319

Of the apparently false decisions of Phy siognomy Of the general Objections made to Phy siognomy Particular Objections answered	325

Title	Physiognomy; or the corresponding analogy between the conformation of the features, and the ruling passions of the mind, tr. [and abridged] by S. Shaw. The title-leaf is a cancel].
Author	Johann Caspar Lavater
Translated by	Samuel Shaw (of Edinburgh)
Published	1827
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	17 May 2006

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