Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-10-21
en-, T. 4. Saturday Morning, October "a, 1895.

with the idea, Of proud, a rese. we'd, u
afable, or . good-nalured man and up
on our first going into a company .
isfrangers, our benevolence or aversion
awe or contempt, rises naturaIly to
wards several particular persons, be
fore we have heard them speak sin
gle word, or 30 much as know who the
are.
Every passion gives particular cas-
to the countenance, and is apt tn dis
cover itself insome feature or other
have seen an eye curse ,foI half al
hour together. aud IN eyebrow call
man a scoundFel. Nothiag is more
common than for lovers to complain
resent, anguish, despair and die il
dumb show. Fur my own part, l an
so apt to frame a notion Of every man I
humouf or circumstances by bis looks,
that have sometimes employed my
self when rambling through the streets
in drawing the chara ter Of those who
have passed by me. When | see a
man with sour rivelled face. l cannot
forbear plying nisSwife and when |
meet with an open ingenious connie
nance, think on the hapmacss Of his
friends, his family and relations.
! cannot recollect the author of "a
nous saying to stranger who stood ST..
lent in his company, Speak, that 7
may sse thee" But with submission.
| think we may be better known by
our looks than by our words, and that
a mans speech /, much more easilr
disguised than his countenance. In
this case, however, l think the air Of
the whole face is msch~more express
slvs than the lines Oft; the truth off
Is, ehe air is generally nothing el.e but
the inward disposition ofthe mil.d made
visible.
Those who have established .physi.
ognomy into an art, and laid down rules
OF Judging mems iempers by their fa-
ces, have regarded the features much
more than the al /. Martial has pref
ty epigram on this sebjects
Thy beard aad head are ofa iff'rent dye;
Short of one leg, distorted in an eye.
With sli these tokens OF n knave complete,
thou be honest, thou'rt devilish
cheat
have seen a very Ingenious author
on this subject, who founds hi. specu-
lations on the supposi'ion, that as a
man hath in the mould of his face a re.
mote likeness 10 that Of an OK, sheep.
a hon, a hog, OF any other creature, he
hath the same resemblance M the
frame cf his mind, and is subject to
those passions which are predominant
IN the creature that appears in the
Accordingly he gives
the prints OF several faces that are Of
different mould, and by little over.
c charglng the likeness, discovers the f..
ces. of these several bru,es, in human
features. i remember in the lie oftbe
famous prince of Condo, the writer Oh.
serves, the face of that prince was like
The face OF an eagle, and that the prince
was very well pleased TO be told so.-i
la the mean time, think nothing can
be more glorious than for man to give
the lie to his face, and to be IN honest,
Just, good natared man, in spite OF all
those marks and signatures which ma
tn. seems to have set upon him for
The contrary. | have seen many an
,miable piece Of deiormity {; and have
observed a certain cheerfulness in as
bad system of features as ever was
clapped together, which hath appear :
ed more lovely than all the blooming
charms of an insolent beauty. There
is double praise due to virtue, when
t is lodged in a body that seems to
have been prepared for the receptions
Of vice. 10 many such cases the soul
and the body do not seem to be iei-
lows.