desire to act within the circle of the strong. Each has its peculiar circle, as it has its peculiar form: to wish to depart from this circle is like wishing to be transported into another body.

3.

"We are assured that the activity of nature wholly changes the body within a year, yet are we sensible of no change of mind, although our body has been subjected to the greatest changes, in consequence of meat, drink, air, and other accidents; the difference of air, and manner of life, does not change the temperament."

(The foundation of character lies deeper, and is, in a certain measure, independent of all accidents. It is probably the spiritual and immortal texture, into which all that is visible, corruptible, and transitory, is interwoven.)

4.

"The statuary may carve a block of wood into what form he shall please, may make it an Esop, or an Antinous; but he will never change the inherent nature of the wood *"

(To know, and to distinguish, the materials and form of men, so far as knowledge

* Memoires pour servir à l'Histoire de Brandenbourg.

contributes to their proper application, is the highest and most effectual wisdom of which human nature is capable.)

5.

"There is something sublime which beams in the eyes of certain persons and exacts reverence. This sublimity is the concealed power of raising themselves above others, which is not the wretched effect of constraint, but primitive essence, and is by nature herself directed to command. Each finds himself obliged to submit to this secret power, without knowing why, as soon as he perceives that look, implanted by nature to inspire reverence, shining in the eyes. Those who possess this natural, sovereign, essence, rule as lords, or lions, among men by native privilege, with heart and tongue conquering all." Gratiani Orac. Max. 42.

6.

"There are only four principal aspects, all different from each other, the ardent, the dull, the fixed, and the fluctuating."

(The proof of all general propositions is their application. Let physiognomonical axioms be applied to known individuals, friends or enemies, and their truth or falsehood, precision or inaccuracy, will easily be

determined. Let us make the experiment with the above, and we shall certainly find there are numerous aspects which are not included within these four; such as the luminous aspect, very different from the ardent, and neither fixed, like the melancholic, nor fluctuating, like the sanguine. There is the look, or aspect, which is at once rapid and fixed; and, as I may say, penetrates and attaches at the same moment. There is the tranquilly active look, neither choleric nor phlegmatic. I think it would be better to arrange them into the giving, the receiving, and the giving and receiving combined; or into intensive and extensive; or into the attracting, repelling, and unparticipating ; into the contracted, the relaxed, the strained, the attaining, the unattaining, the tranquil, the steady, the slow, the open, the closed, the single, the simple, the perplexed, the cold, the amorous, the complying, the firm, the courageous, the faithful, &c.

H.

PHYSIOGNOMONICAL ANECDOTES.

1.

I REQUIRE nothing of thee, said a father to his innocent son, when bidding him farewel, but that thou shouldest bring me back this thy countenance.

2.

A noble, amiable, and innocent young lady, who had been chiefly educated in the country, saw her face in the glass, as she passed it with a candle in her hand, retiring from evening prayer, and having just laid down her Bible. Her eyes were cast to the ground, with inexpressible modesty, at the sight of her own image. She passed the winter in town, surrounded by adorers, hurried away by dissipation, and plunged in trifling amusement; she forgot her Bible, and her devotion. In the beginning of spring she returned again to her country seat, her chamber, and the table on which her Bible lay. Again she had the candle in her hand, and again saw herself in the glass. She turned pale, put down the candle, retreated to a sofa, and fell on her knees.

"Oh God! I no longer know my own face. How am I degraded! My follies and vanities are all written in my countenance. Wherefore have they been unseen, illegible, till this instant? Oh come and expel, come and utterly efface them, mild tranquillity, sweet devotion, and ye gentle cares of benevolent love!

3.

"I will forfeit my life," said Titus of the priest Tacitus," if this man be not an arch knave. I have three times observed him sigh and weep, without cause; and ten times turn aside, to conceal a laugh he could not restrain, when vice or misfortune were mentioned."

4.

A stranger said to a physiognomist, "How many dollars is my face worth?"—" It is hard to determine," replied the latter. "It is worth fifteen hundred," continued the questioner," for so many has a person lent me upon it to whom I was a total stranger."

5.

A poor man asked alms. "How much do you want?" said the person of whom he asked, astonished at the peculiar honesty of his countenance. "How shall I dare to fix