[Aristotle's works.].

  • Aristotle, pseud.
Date:
[1890?]
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Credit: [Aristotle's works.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chaste, a detractor, unstable and unfaithful. He or she whose motion is not much when discoursing with anyone, is for the most part wise and well bred, and fit for any employment, ingenious and apprehensive, frugal, faithful and industrious in business. He whose pos- ture is forwards and backwards, or^ as it were, whisking up and down, mimical is thereby de- noted to be a vain, silly person, of a heavy and dull wit, and very malicious. He whose motion is lame and limping, or otherwise im- perfect, or that counterfeits an imperfection, is denoted to be envious, malicious, false and de- tracting. Judgment drawn from the Stature of Man. Physiognomy draws several judgments also from the stature of man, which take as follow- eth : if a man be upright and straight, in- clined rather to leanness than fat, it shows him to be bold, cruel, proud, clamorous, hard to please, and harder to be reconciled when displeased, very frugal, deceitful, and in many things malicious. To be of tall stature and corpulent with it, denotes him to be not only handsome but valiant also, but of no extra- ordinary understanding, ana which is worst of allj ungrateful and trepanning. He who is ex- tremely tail and very lean and thin, is a pro- jecting man, that designs no good to himself, and suspects everyone to be as bad as himself, importunate to obtain what he desires, and extremely wedded to his own humour. He