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Title: New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine."
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875
Subjects: Physiognomy Phrenology
Publisher: New York : Fowler & Wells
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ey clearly indicate would repel Satan himself,and attract none but the low and bad. What woman w^ouldselect such a man to be her husband and the father of herchildren ? THE TWO POETS. There are perhaps more points of resemblance than of con-trast between the two heads here presented. There are evi-dences enough of the poetic organization in both. Thoughtand feeling, imagination and reflection, affection and spiritual-ity are combined in each. But there are contrasted qualities. « John Howard, the world-renowned philanthropist, was born at Hack-ney, England, in 1729, and died at Cherson, a Russian settlement on theBlack Sea, January 20, 1790, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. He spentthe greater part of his life in works of benevolence, and especially in visit-ing prisons and alleviating the condition of prisoners. He manifestedthe greatest energy, courage, and perseverance in the pursuit of his phil-anthropic objects. His name is synonymous with philanthropy. 646 CONTIIASTED FACES.
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Fig. 757.—Berangee.* *** Pierre Jean de Beranger was bora ia Paris, August 19, 1780, and diedin his native city, July 16, 1857, at the age of 77. Beranger was a childof the people, his father, though claiming to have gentle blood in hisveins, being a poor book-keeper, and his mother a milliner. He receiveda common French education, and was apprenticed to a printer, but did notremain long at his trade, being taken home by his father who had engagedin business on his own account, in which, however, he soon failed, plung-ing his family into the deepest poverty. Young Pierre now took to versesand politics, neither of which were at first pecuniarily profitable, and hewas reduced to absolute penury ; but finally attracting the attention ofLucien Bonaparte, he found in him an influential friend, and was placed ina way to become known and appreciated as a poet His genius was unmis-takable, and his songs soon became immensely popular. They were circu-lated and sung everywhere, even before th

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