LXXXII.

THE SMILE.

He who gains on you in a smile, and loses in a laugh--who without smiling appears to smile condescendingly, and when silent conciliates to him all around himwho when he smiles or laughs at what is witty or humorous betrays no cold contemning derision-who smiles with pleasure when he observes the joys of innocence, or hears the praise of merit-will have in his physiognomy and his character every thing noble, every thing harmonizing.

LXXXIII.

TO BE AVOIDED.

Be circumspect as possible in the presence of a corpulent choleric man, who continually speaks loud, and never at his ease, looking round with rolling eyes; who has accustomed himself to the external parade of politeness and ceremony; and who does every thing with slovenliness, and without

order. In his round, short snubbed nose, in his open mouth, his projecting protuberance - producing forehead, his sounding step, are contempt and harshness; halfqualities with pretension to super-eminence; malignity with the external appearance of civility and good-humour.

LXXXIV.

TO BE AVOIDED.

AVOID every one who discourses and decides in a stiff-constrained manner, speaking loud and shrill, and without listening to what is said by others; whose eyes, then, become larger, and more projecting; his eyebrows more bristly; his veins more swelling, his under lip more advanced; his neck swollen; his hands clenched-and who, as soon as he sits down, becomes courteously cool;-whose eyes and lips, as it were, recede, when he is interrupted by the unexpected presence of a great man who is thy friend.

LXXXV.

AMBIGUOUS CHARACTER.

HE, the traits and complexion of whose countenance rapidly change, and who is anxious to conceal those changes, and can suddenly assume an easy unconstrained air; who, especially, can easily dilate or contract his mouth, and, as it were, have it under command, particularly when the eye of the observer is turned upon him-has less integrity than prudence; is more a man of the world than a philosopher; more a politician than a man of calm wisdom; more a boon companion than a faithful friend.

LXXXVI.

THINKERS.

THERE is no attentive just thinker, who does not shew that he is such between the eyebrows and the descent of the forehead to the nose. If there be there no indentings or cavities, refinement or energy, we shall seek in vain, in the whole countenance, the

whole man, and in all the acts and operations of the mind, the thinker-that is the man who will not be satisfied without true, clear, definite, consequent, and connected ideas.

LXXXVII.

VOLUPTUARIES.

A LONG, projecting, needle-formed, or a strong, curled, harsh, rough hair, springing from a brown mole or spot, on the chin or neck, denotes, in a most decisive manner, very great voluptuousness, which is rarely unaccompanied by great imprudence and indiscretion.

LXXXVIII.

HARSH CHARACTER.

SOME ingredients.

a) Perpendicular, very high, or very short foreheads, abounding in knots.

b) Very sharp, small, short, or rudelyrounded noses, with wide nostrils.