The characters of Theophrastus / translated from the Greek, and illustrated by physiognomical sketches. To which are subjoined the Greek text, with notes, and hints on the individual varieties of human nature. By Francis Howell.

  • Theophrastus.
Date:
1824
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Credit: The characters of Theophrastus / translated from the Greek, and illustrated by physiognomical sketches. To which are subjoined the Greek text, with notes, and hints on the individual varieties of human nature. By Francis Howell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    writer ; and besides these sources of obscurity, the text of the Characters has come down to us in a very corrupted state. | : The increasing taste for the study of the richest and the noblest of all languages,—that of ancient Greece, and the wide diffusion of a respectable measure of classical learning in this country, may justify the presumption that, in appending the Greek text to the translation, the volume will be rendered more interesting to many of those who may be its readers. - No scientific value is attached. by the artist, or the editor, to the graphic illustrations that accompany the translation and the. notes. They are, it is true, the products of long-con- tinued observation of faces and of tempers. Yet. they are presented without the protection of any claim to physiognomical authority. The same may be said of the few physiognomical hints that are dispersed in the notes. Any one who has studied forms and minds, during a