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... mind . And the language of ideas however correctly delivered , without the addition of this language of the passions , will prove cold and uninteresting . Upon this subject Mr. Sheridan has written with such happy ingenuity and elegance ...
... mind . And the language of ideas however correctly delivered , without the addition of this language of the passions , will prove cold and uninteresting . Upon this subject Mr. Sheridan has written with such happy ingenuity and elegance ...
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... mind is partly made known ; as in refusing and assenting . " The haughty spirit above all is indicated by the brows . " " Pride is conceived in another place , but here she sits upon her " throne . Born in the heart , she mounts up here ...
... mind is partly made known ; as in refusing and assenting . " The haughty spirit above all is indicated by the brows . " " Pride is conceived in another place , but here she sits upon her " throne . Born in the heart , she mounts up here ...
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... mind . 66 " To this purpose Mr. Spon , in his Récherches d'Antiquité , gives " us a curious story of the celebrated physiognomist Campanella ; " this man , it seems , had not only made very accurate observa- ❝tions on human faces , but ...
... mind . 66 " To this purpose Mr. Spon , in his Récherches d'Antiquité , gives " us a curious story of the celebrated physiognomist Campanella ; " this man , it seems , had not only made very accurate observa- ❝tions on human faces , but ...
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Of the Voice | 27 |
Of the VoiceGeneral Precepts | 67 |
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