 | Edmund Burke - History - 1802 - 880 pages
...be hired till tliedefcriptions and engravings of Lavater had been confulted, in careful comparifon with the lines and features of the young man's or woman's countenance. The fame (\fiem was eagerly tranflaled into the French language : and, as the infight into character and... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...admired, they were thought as necessary in every family, as even the Bible itself. A servant would, at one time, scarcely be hired till the descriptions and engravings of Lavater had been consulted, in care-< ful comparison, with the lines and features of the young man's or woman's countenance. The same... | |
 | History - 1802 - 876 pages
...be hired till the defcriptions and engravings of Lavater had been confulted, in careful comparifon with the lines and features of the young man's or woman's countenance. The fame fyftem was eagerly tranflated into the French language : and, as the ¡might intocharacîer and... | |
 | History - 1802 - 882 pages
...be hired till the defcriptions and engravings of Lavater had been confulted, in careful compartfon with the lines and features of the young man's or woman's countenance. The fame fvfiem was eagerly tranflated into llie French lan•guage : and, as the infight intocharacler... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1805 - 470 pages
...were multiplied by many editions, and familiarized to England by translations. A servant would, at one time, scarcely be hired till the descriptions...Lavater had been consulted, in careful comparison with tbe lines and features of the young man's or woman's countenance. The physiognomical deiirium of the... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1811 - 490 pages
....¿9 A servant would, at one time, scarcely be hired till the descriptions and engravings of La valer had been consulted, in careful comparison with the lines and features of the young man's or woman's counte» nance. The physiognomical delirium of the weak, however, coon excited the derision of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1802 - 920 pages
...icarcely be hired till thedeicriplions and engravings of Lavater had been confulted, in careful companion with the lines and features of the young man's or woman's countenance. The fame iyfiein was eagerly tranilated into the French language : and, as the inllght into character and... | |
 | Keith Busby - Social Science - 1992 - 273 pages
...admired, they were thought as necessary in every family as even the Bible itself. A servant would, at one time, scarcely be hired till the descriptions...features of the young man's or woman's countenance. (Graham, p. 297) And we learn from Darwin's autobiography that as he embarked upon his famous voyage... | |
 | Francis Haskell - Art - 1993 - 574 pages
...years one of the most famous men in Europe', while in another it was claimed that 'a servant would, at one time, scarcely be hired till the descriptions...the lines and features of the young man's or woman's countenance'.68 Dozens of editions of his Physiognomical Fragments appeared in the principal European... | |
 | Lucy Hartley - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 264 pages
...Gautier, and ^ola (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), p. 96. stated that: 'a sen.ant would, at one time, scarcely be hired till the descriptions...features of the young man's or woman's countenance'. The Gentleman's Magazine 71 (1801): p. 124. 42 The Encyclopaed1a Bntann1ca, 8th edn, 22 vols. (Edinburgh:... | |
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... the Physiognomical Science of Lavater. His books, published in the German language, were multiplied by many editions. In the enthusiasm with which they were studied and admired, they were thought as necessary in every family as even the Bible itself.... 