An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart (1873) (14776652534)

Identifier: originalillustra00simm (find matches)
Title: An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) DLC Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Physiognomy
Publisher: Glasgow : Dunn & Wright, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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u may not see thespeaker. 11. In spite of your controlling reason, music quiets or rouses yourpassions; hence you would like to set your laws, prayers, and loftyaspirations to music as did the ancients. 12. You have the very best musical judgment, hence your criticismsmust prove invaluable to the aspiring composer or performer. A, To Cultivate and Improve the Power of Eeception of Tone:—Listen mosb attentively to the soft airy notes of the violin, and allowyour soul to enjoy and feast upon good music at least once a day. If TONIRECEPTION A LITY. 81 favoured with an opportunity listen to the best musicians of the davsuch as Jenny Lind, Miss Eussell, Tamberlik, Sims Keeves, ParepaRosa, Santley, Cummings, Karl, Canissa, Adeline Patti, and other livingand soul-stirring celebrities m the musical world. Attend eood musicalconcerts and there allow your soul to feast to satiety on ineffable soundsuntil pleasing reveries waft you away to spiritual recollections whichcharm while they ennoble.
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Tonireceptionality large.The ear of Miss Flora S. Johnson, who atthe age of five years could learn difficulttunes by once hearing them. Tonireceptionality small. The ear of a man who was unable to distinguish tunes. B. To Restrain Receptivity of Tone:—Avoid the soul-stirring strainsof Pagannini, Ole Bull, and Jenny Lind; dont sing, but direct your mindinto channels of usefulness rather than pleasure; remember that music hasbecome an injurious passion in your nature, and will probably draw youdown and debase your passional mind, while it entices you to misbehave^ S2 CONCEALATIVENESS. COXCEALATIYENESS. THE INCLINATION TO HIDE OR WITHHOLD THE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS ORTHOUGHTS—THE INSTINCT NOT TO TELL THE MOUSE THAT THE CAT ISWATCHING UNTIL THE MOUSE IS CAUGHT. Secretiveness may he hioion hy thin closely compressed lips, holloicedand flexed hands, arched or cat-shaped foot, closing of the eyes, <tc. Theprinciple of this faculty is to hold on, its action affects all the flexor muscles