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LARGE, is always watchful; on the look-out; careful; anxious; solici tous; provident against real and imaginary danger, &c.: p. 104. c. 5. 6. 15 VERY LARGE, hesitates too much; suffers greatly from groundless fears; is timid, easily frightened, &c.: p. 105. c. 12. 13. 16. 17. 21. 26. 27. 31. MODERATE, is rather imprudent, hence unlucky; liable to misfortunes caused by carelessness; plans too imperfectly for action: p. 106. SMALL, acts impromptu; disregards consequences; fears nothing; is imprudent; luckless, often in hot water: p. 106.

VERY SMALL, is reckless, destitute of fear and forethought: p. 107. CIRCUMSPECTION. Propriety; discreetness of expression and conduct AVERAGE OR FULL, has some, though none too much, discretion and propriety of expression and conduct; sometimes speaks inconsiderately. LARGE OR VERY LARGE, weighs well what he says and does; has a nice sense of propriety; thinks twice before he speaks once. MODERATE OR SMALL, does and says indiscreet things: unascertained 2. 11. APPROBATIVENESS.-Sense of honour, regard for character; ambition; love of popularity, fame, distinction, &c.: p. 107. AVERAGE, enjoys approbation, yet will not sacrifice much to obtain it. FULL, desires and seeks popularity and feels censure, yet will neither deny nor trouble himself much to secure or avoid either: p. 110. LARGE, sets every thing by character, honour, &c.; is keenly alive to the frowns and smiles of publick opinion, praise, &c.; tries to show off to good advantage; is affable, ambitious, apt to praise himself: p. 108 VERY LARGE, regards his honour and character as the apple of his eye; is even morbidly sensitive to praise and censure; over fond of praise, often feels ashamed, &c.; extremely polite, ceremonious, &c.: p. 110. MODERATE, feels reproach some, yet is little affected by popularity or unpopularity; may gather the flowers of applause that are strewed in his path, yet will not deviate from it to collect them: p. 112.

SMALL, cares little for popular frowns or favours; feels little shame; disregards and despises fashions, etiquette, &c.; is not polite: p. 112. VERY SMALL, cares nothing for popular favour or censure. '3. SELF-ESTEEM. Self-respect; high-toned, manly feeling; innale love of personal liberty, independent, &c.; pride of character: p. 113. AVERAGE, respects himself, yet is not haughty: c. 21. 41. FULL, has much self-respect; pride of character; independence: p. 116. LARGE, is high-minded, independent, self-confident, dignified, his own master; aspires to be and do something worthy of himself; assumes responsibilities; does few little things: p. 114. c. 5. 6.

VERY LARGE, has unbounded self-confidence; endures no restraint, takes no advice; is rather haughty, imperious, &c.; p. 116. c. 8. 14. 15. 16. MODERATE, has some self-respect, and manly feeling, yet too little to give ease, dignity, weight of character, &c.; is too trifling: p. 116. c. 28 SMALL, feels too unworthy; says and does trifling things; puts himself on a par; is not looked up to; undervalues himself: p. 117. c. 11 VERY SMALL, is servile, low-minded: destitute of self-respect: p. 117 14. .5. FIRMNESS.-Decision, stability, fixedness of character, &c. 119. AVERAGE, has some decision, yet too little for general success: c. 10. 20 FULL, has perseverance enough for ordinary occasions, yet too little for great enterprises; is neither fickle nor stubborn: p. 121. c. 21. 27. LARGE, may be fully relied on; is set in his own way; hard to be ronvinced or changed at all; holds on long and hard: p. 119. c. 6.

VERY LARGE, is wilful; and so tenacious and unchangeable of opi nion, purpose, &c., that he seldom gives up any thing: p. 120. c. 5. 8. 12. 14. 15. 16. 17.

MODERATE, gives over too soon; changes too often and too easily; thus fails to effect what greater firmness would do: p. 122. c. 11. 26.

SMALL OR VERY SMALL, lacks perseverance; is too changeable and vacillating to effect much, or be relied upon: p. 122. SPECIES II. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS. These render man a moral, accountable, and religious being; humanize, adorn, and elevate his nature; connect him with the moral government of God, create the higher and nobler sentiments of our nature; and are the origi of goodness, virtue, moral principle and purity, &c.: p. 48. 123. c. 2. AVERAGE OR FULL, has moral feeling and principle, yet too little t withstand large or very large propensities: c. 8. 15. 21. LARGE OR VERY LARGE, is morally inclined; sentimental; thinks and feels much on moral and religious subjects, &c.: p. 52. c. 5. 6. 7. 11. 41. MODERATE, SMALL, OR VERY SMALL, has not strong moral or religious feelings; lets his larger faculties rule him: p. 52. c. 14. 17. 20. 26. 42. 15. 16. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.-Innate feeling of duty, accounta bility, justice, right, &c.; moral principle; love of truth: p. 124. AVERAGE, has right intentions, but their influence is limited: c. 15. FULL, strives to do right, yet sometimes yields to temptation; resists besetting sins, but may be overcome, and then feels remorse: p. 130. c. 27. LARGE, is honest; faithful; upright at heart; moral in feeling; grateful; penitent; means weil; consults duty before expediency; loves and means to speak the truth; cannot tolerate wrong: p. 126. c. 13. 25. 11. VERY LARGE, is scrupulously exact in matters of right; perfectly honest in motive; always condemning self and repenting; very forgiving, conscientious, &c.; makes duty every thing, expediency nothing: p. 129. MODERATE, has considerable regard for duty en feeling, but less in prac tice; justifies himself; is not very penitent, grateful, or forgiving; often temporizes with principle; sometimes lets interest rale duty: p. 131. SMALL, has few conscientious scruples; little penitence, gratitude, ro gard for moral principle, justice, duty, &c.: p. 132. c. 20. 16. 17. 42. VERY SMALL, neither regards nor feels the claims of duty or justice. 1S. 17. HOPE.-Anticipation; expectation of future happiness, success, &c. AVERAGE, has some, but generally reasonable, hopes; is seldom elated FULL, is quite sanguine, yet realizes about what he expects: p. 139. LARGE, expects, attempts, and promises a great deal; is generally sanguine, cheerful, &c.; rises above present troubles; though disappointed, hopes on still; views the brightest side of prospects: p. 137. c. 5. 6. 26, VERY LARGE, has unbounded hopes; builds a world of castles in the air; lives in the future; has too many irons in the fire: p. 138. c. 12. 13, MODERATE, expects and attempts too little; succeeds beyond his hope; is prone to despond; looks on the darker side: p. 139.

SMALL, is low-spirited; easily discouraged; fears the worst, sees many lions in his way; magnifies evils; lacks enterprise: p. 140. c. 17. VERY SMALL, expects nothing good; has no hope of the future: p. 140 18. MARVELLOUSNESS.-Belief in the supernatural; credulity AVERAGE, believes some but not much, in wonders, forewarnings, &

FULL, is open to conviction; rather credulous; believes in spirits, divine providences and forewarnings, the spiritual, &c. p. 143. LARGE, believes and delights in the supernatural, in dreams, and the like • thinks many natural things supernatural: p. 142. c. 8. 12. VERY LARGE, is very superstitious; regards most things with wonder. MODERATE, believes but little that cannot be accounted for, yet is open to conviction; is incredulous, but listens to evidence: p. 144. SMALL, is convinced only by the hardest; believes nothing till he sees facts, or why and wherefore, not even revelation farther than a reason is rendered; is prone to reject new things without examination: p. 145. VERY SMALL, is skeptical; believes little else than his senses: p. 146. 18. 14. VENERATION.-The feeling of worship for a Supreme Being; respect for religion and things sacred, and for superiors: p. 147. AVERAGE, may feel religious worship, yet little respect for men. 10. FULL, is capable of much religious fervour and devotion, yet is not habi. tually serious; generally treats his fellow men civilly: p. 149. c. 11. 42. LARGE, loves to adore and worship God, especially through his works; treats equals with respect, and superiors with deference: p. 148. c. 6. VERY LARGE, is eminent, if not pre-eminent, for piety, heart-felt devotion, religious fervour, seriousness, love of divine things, &c.: p. 149. c. 5. 12. 15. 16. 26. 41.

MODERATE, disregards religious creeds, forms of worship, &c.; places religion in other things; is not serious nor respectful: p. 150. c. 21. SMALL, feels little religious worship, reverence, respect, &c.: p. 150 VERY SMALL, seldom, if ever, adores God; is almost incapable of it. 19. 13. BENEVOLENCE. Desire to see and make sentient beings happy, willingness to sacrifice for this end; kindness; sympathy for distress AVERAGE, has kind, fellow feeling, without much active benevolence. FULL, has a fair share of sympathetick feeling, and some, though no great, willingness to sacrifice for others: p. 158.

LARGE, is kind, obliging, glad to serve others, even to his injury; feels lively sympathy for distress; does good to all: p. 155. c. 6. 7. 18. 21. VERY LARGE, does all the good in his power; gladly sacrifices self upon the altar of pure benevolence; scatters happiness wherever he goes; is one of the kindest-hearted of persons: p. 157. c. 5. 10. 2' 40. 41. MODERATE, has some benevolent feeling, yet too little to prompt to much self-denial; does good only when he can without cost: p. 158. c. 12. 20 SMALL, feels little kindness or sympathy; is almost deaf to the cries of distress; hard-hearted, selfish, &c.: p. 159. c. 8. 14. 15. 26. 42. VERY SMALL, is destitute of all humanity and sympathy: p. 159. c. 24. SPECIES III. SEMI-INTELLECTUAL SENTIMENTS. By creating a taste for the arts, improvements, polite literature, the refinements and elegancies of life, &c., these faculties greatly augment human happiness, and adom and elevate human nature: p. 48. 159. c. 2. Large in c. 6. 11. 18. 80. 9. CONSTRUCTIVENESS. Mechanical dexterity and ingenuity; desire and ability to use tools, build, invent, employ machinery, &c. AVERAGE, has some, yet no great, relish for, and tact in, using tools. FULL, has fair mechanical ingenuity, yet no great natural talent or desire to make things; with practice, will do well; without it, little: p. 163. LARGE, shows great natural dexterity in using tools, executing mecha nical operations, working machinery, &c.; loves them: p. 161. c. 18

VERY LARGE, is a mechanick of the firs: order; a true genius; loves it too well to leave it; shows extraordinary skill in it: p. 162. c. 7. 19. MODERATE, with much practice, may use tools quite well, yet disliken mechanical operations; owes more to art than nature: p. 163. c. 14. SMALL, hates and is awkward and bungling in using tools, &c.: p. 163. VERY SMALL, has no mechanical skill or desire: p. 164. 21. 19. IDEALITY.-Imagination; taste; fancy; love of perfection, poetry, polite literature, oratory, the beautiful in nature and art, &c. AVERAGE, has some taste, though not enough to influence him much. FULL, has refinement of feeling, expression, &c., without sickly delicacy, some love of poetry, yet not a vivid imagination: p. 168. c. 6. 7. 42. LARGE, has a lively imagination; great love of poetry, eloquence, fiction, good style, the beauties of nature and art: p. 166. c. 11. 18. 41. VERY LARGE, often gives reins to his erratick imagination; experiences revellings of fancy, ecstasy, rapture of feeling, enthusiasm: p. 167. c. 40. MODERATE, has some, but not much, imagination; is rather plain in expression, manners, feeling, &c.; dislikes poetry, finery, &c. : p. 168. 42 SMALL, lacks taste, niceness, refinement, delicacy of feeling, &c.: p. 169, VERY SMALL, is destitute of the qualities ascribed to this faculty: p. 169. B SUBLIMITY-Conception of grandeur; sublime emotions excites by contemplating the vast, magnificent, or splendid in nature or art. AVERAGE, Sometimes, but not to a great degree, experiences this feeling FULL, enjoys magnificent scenes well, yet not remarkably so. LARGE, admires and enjoys mountain scenery, thunder, lightning, tem. pest, a vast prospect, &c., exceedingly; hence, enjoys travelling: p. 249. VERY LARGE, is a passionate admirer of the wild and romantick; feels the sublimest emotions whilst contemplating the grand or awful in na ture; dashing, foaming, roaring cataracts, towering mountains, peals of thunder, flashes of lightning, commotions of the elements, the starry canopy of heaven, &c.: p. 249. c. 11. 40. 41.

MODERATE, IL some, though not at all vivid, emotions of this kind. SMALL, OR VER SMALL, discovers little in nature to awaken this feeling 32. 21. IMITATION.-Disposition and ability to take pattern, imitate AVERAGE, copies some, yet too little to deserve or excite notice. FULL, with effort, copies some, but not well; cannot mimick: p. 171 LARGE, has a great propensity and ability to copy, take pattern from others, do what he sees done, &c.; needs but one showing; gesticulate much; describes and acts out well: p. 170. c. 41.

VERY LARGE, can mimick, act out, and copy almost any thing; de scribe, relate anecdotes, &c., to the very life; has a theatrical taste and talent; seldom speaks without gesturing: p. 171. c. 11. 40. MODERATE, cannot mimick at all; can copy, draw, take pattern, &, only with difficulty; describes, relates anecdote, &c., poorly: p. 171. SMALL, dislikes and fails to copy, draw, do after others, &c. p. 173 VERY SMALL, has little ability to imitate or copy any thing: p. 172. 23. 20. MIRTHFULNESS.-Intuitive perception of the absurd ana ridiculous; a joking, fun-making, ridiculing disposition and ability. AVERAGE, perceives jokes, and relishes fun, but cannot make much. FULL, has much mirthful feeling; makes and relishes jokes well: p 175. LARGE, has a quick, keen perception of the ludicrous; makes a great amount of fun; too much for his own good; is quick at repartee; smiles often; laughs heartily at jokes: p. 173. c. 11 18

VERY LARGE, is quick and apt at turning every thing into ridicule, throws off constant sallies of wit; is too facetious, jocose, &c.: p. 175. c. 6. MODERATE, has some witty ideas, yet lacks quickness in conceiving, and tact in expressing them; is generally quite sober: p. 176. c. 26. SMALL, makes little fun; is slow to perceive, and still slower to turn jokes; seldom laughs; thinks it wrong to do so: p. 177.

VERY SMALL, has few if any witty ideas or conceptions: p. 177. GENUS III. INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES. These have to do with the physical and the metaphysical world; with things in general, and their qualities, relations, &c.; with the world and its contents: p. 49. 177. c. 2. AVERAGE OR FULL, has sufficient intellect to get along in the world, yet not enough to render him eminent for talents: c. 10. 15. 21. 27. LARGE, is possessed of sufficient natural talent and power of intellect to enable him to take a high intellectual stand among men, yet their direction depends upon other causes: c. 18.

VERY LARGE, is by nature a truly great man; possesses the highest order of natural talents; is capable of rising to pre-eminence: c. 5. 6.

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MODERATE OR SMALL, shows little talent, lacks sense: c. 8. 14. 20. 42. SPECIES I. THE SENSES; sensation, sight, hearing, taste, smell. 178. SPECIES II-OBSERVING AND KNOWING FACULTIES. These bring man into direct intercourse with the physical world; observe facts of all kinds, that is, the conditions, qualities, phenomena, and physical relations of material things: collect and treasure up information; create the desire to see and know things, &c.: p. 50. 183. c. 2.

AVERAGE OR FULL, possesses fair perceptive powers: c. 6. 10. 11. 21. LARGE, with advantages, knows a great deal about matters and things in general; is very quick of observation and perception; has a practical. matter-of-fact, common sense tact and talent; can show off to excellent advantage; appear to know all that he really does, and perhaps more is capable of becoming an excellent scholar, or of acquiring and retaining knowledge with great facility, and attending to the details of business⚫ and has a decidedly practical intellect: p. 50. c. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 25. VERY LARGE, is pre-eminent for the qualities just described; seizes as if by intuition upon the properties, conditions, fitness or unfitness, value, &c., of things; has wonderful powers of observation and ability to acquire knowledge; has a natural taste and talent for examining and collecting statistics, studying natural science, &c.: p. 53. c. 5. 7. 12. 40. MODERATE OR SMALL, is rather slow of observation and perception, cannot show to be what he is; acquires knowledge with 'difficulty, is slow in learning and doing things off-hand, &c.: p. 53. 24, 22. INDIVIDUALITY.-Observing and individualizing power and desire; curiosity to see and know; disposition to specify, personify AVERAGE, has some, yet no great, curiosity, and desire to see things. FULL, has fair observing powers, and desire to see things: p. 185. c. 6. 21, LARGE, has a great desire to know, investigate, examine, experience, &c.; is a great observer of men and things; quick of perception; see what is transpiring, what should be done, &c.: p. 184. c. 8. 10. 11. 14. 25. VERY LARGE, has an insatiable desire to see and know every thing; extraordinary observing powers; is eager to witness every passing event: p. 185. c 5 7. 12. 13. 15 22 23. 40. 41. 42.

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