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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... People's notions of bounty differ. Tamerlane's wife, who had no nose, was thought a belle by her contemporaries. A patrician of Venice had a scurvy little proboscis, and that was held of itself a sufficient disqualification for the doge's cap and ring. Cicero admired the squinting eye, such as Greek sculptors often gave to Venus, and Minerva was sometimes figured with a complexion as dusky as any gipsy wife on Epsom downs. Some of the Greeks held blue eyes to be hideous, and Dioscorides tells us they had an art--the same practised, perhaps, centuries afterwards at Donnybrook fair---of making them black. Hunchbacks have had their admirers, who contend that the dorsal curvature is the true line of beauty, and that the hump, so far from being a deformity, "as dull fools suppose," is in itself a graceful ornament, seeing that, in its outline, it approximates the figure Eo many illustrious objects in nature assume, to wit, the sun, the terrestrial globe, the span above us of aerial blue, the head of man, seat of his intellect and organ of his will. Still, however much men may differ in their conceptions of the beautiful, certain it is that whatever they esteem beautiful invariably engages their affections and provokes their desires. They invariably recognize its claims to consideration, and, by the very constitution of their minds, are prone to associate its presence with everything that is good, pure, and virtuous. Suetonius tells us that, at all periods of his life and health, Augustus was beautiful, and owed to his good looks his uniform good fortune. We know that he took unusual care to preserve his personal appearance; for, to guard himself against the deteriorating influences of atmospheric changes, he would clothe himself with such a...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153985598 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153985594 |
| Weight | 2.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.42 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 644 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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