An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart (1873) (14778970622)

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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Restrain the Imagination:—Always call a spade a spade;avoid all ornament in dress; never mind the fashions; let your words be FACTIMEMOPwTATn-ENESS. 203 nil literal; metaphor, and all figure of speech, score out of your vocabu-lary; specially avoid hyperbole; use no exaggeration; remember thatthough the cabbage is not so beautiful as the rose, yet it is much moreuseful; never betake yourself to solitary meditation; turn away fromruins of palaces, cities and castles, abbeys and druidical relics, unlesssurrounded by thoughtless friends, who seek to feed idle curiosity; neverroad novels or poetry; avoid all chances of deep and soul-stirring medi-tation, by light social converse with plain, practical people; and whenany one speaks to you figuratively, turn sharp upon him, saying— Iwant the facts—nothing but facts. FACTIMEMORIATIVENESS. TTIE FACULTY OF RETAINING PREVIOUSLY ATTAINED KNOWLEDGE. Memory of incidents and general affairs manifests itselfhy general fulness of the forehead.
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Factimemoriativeness large. Factimemoriativeness small. Frederick H. A. Baron von Humboldt. Miss Catherine Dimn. 1. Prone to forgetfulness, and destitute of the ability to think overthe past, the occurrences of your life never trouble or delight you. 2. Such is the poverty of your memory that it is impossible for you tarecollect what or how much you have forgotten. As quick-silver thrownupon glass rolls off in numerous little globules, soft and divisible, so dofacts when put upon the tablets of your memory. 3. Important occurrences are apt to fade^frora the canvass of yourmemory: hence you can give only a vague account of historical incidentslong since read. 204 FACTIMEMORIATIVEKESS. 4. So misty and enveloped in haziness is your power of recollection,that you cannot readily dispel the uncertain gloom, so as to enable youto present the images of the past in a clear light. 5. Generalities you can recollect, but minutiae you cannot recall; andhence you fail to relate an anecdote well, an