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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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cial circle, yet, when all around are merry you are calmly thoughtful,and every feature of your pitying visage relates the tale of your inmostthoughts. 8. Yours somewhat resernbles that tender and great spirit whose tearsof joy rush spontaneously from the eyes when suffering and sorrow havebeen relieved. 9. The melting anguish of suffering innocence kindles within youthe fires of compassion, which burn, yet consume not, which purify while-they nourish and improve the soul. 10. Concessions and benefactions you are ready to make where it willresult in good, all eleemosynary projects afford you pleasure; you willgrant a pardon if asked by an enemy; and you are always very lenientand indulgent towards others. 11. Much you resemble the nature of the great Pompey, who was notedfor his noble generosity. No narrow, sharp lines of sectionality limit or PITI FULNESS. 191> confine your spontaneous feelings of clement consolation which well forthunbidden whenever you are cognizant of distress.
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Pitifulness very small.Nero, one of the most cruel Emperorsof Rome,—Copied from the bust inthe British Museum. Pitifulness very large.Miss Coutts, of London, England, themost compassionate lady of thepresent age. 12. Complete abnegation of self is your distinctive quality; pitysripest fruits are brought to perfection in you, and manifest themselves bythe terribly convulsive throes of your heart when sympathizing with thewoes and agonizing anguish of others. When your tenderest feeling ofmercy is excited by distress, it runs through every fibre of your beingwith the rapidity of lightning, and with redoubled force endeavours torender assistance to the unfortunate by its divine impulses. Shakspearehad such qualities as you possess in his mind when he penned the follow-ing lines:— • The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: •Tis mightiest in the mighti

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