The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 375 pages of information about The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher.

The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 375 pages of information about The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher.
honest in his dealings, patient in receiving, and slow in offering injuries, but yet privately malicious.  He whose nose is naturally more red than any other part of his face, is thereby denoted to be covetous, impious, luxurious, and an enemy to goodness.  A nose that turns up again, and is long and full at the tip of it, shows the person that has it to be bold, proud, covetous, envious, luxurious, a liar and deceiver, vain, glorious, unfortunate and contentious.  He whose nose riseth high in the middle, is prudent and polite, and of great courage, honourable in his actions, and true to his word.  A nose big at the end shows a person to be of a peaceable disposition, industrious and faithful, and of a good understanding.  A very wide nose, with wide nostrils, denotes a man dull of apprehension, and inclined more to simplicity than wisdom, and withal vain, contentious and a liar.

When the nostrils are close and thin, they denote a man to have but little testicles, and to be very desirous of the enjoyment of women, but modest in his conversation.  But he whose nostrils are great and wide, is usually well hung and lustful; but withal of an envious, bold and treacherous disposition and though dull of understanding, yet confident enough.

A great and wide mouth shows a man to be bold, warlike, shameless and stout, a great liar and as great a talker, also a great eater, but as to his intellectuals, he is very dull, being for the most part very simple.

A little mouth shows the person to be of a quiet and pacific temper, somewhat reticent, but faithful, secret, modest, bountiful, and but a little eater.

He whose mouth smells of a bad breath, is one of a corrupted liver and lungs, is oftentimes vain, wanton, deceitful, of indifferent intellect, envious, covetous, and a promise-breaker.  He that has a sweet breath, is the contrary.

The lips, when they are very big and blubbering, show a person to be credulous, foolish, dull and stupid, and apt to be enticed to anything.  Lips of a different size denote a person to be discreet, secret in all things, judicious and of a good wit, but somewhat hasty.  To have lips, well coloured and more thin than thick, shows a person to be good-humoured in all things and more easily persuaded to good than evil.  To have one lip bigger than the other, shows a variety of fortunes, and denotes the party to be of a dull, sluggish temper, but of a very indifferent understanding, as being much addicted to folly.

When the teeth are small, and but weak in performing their office, and especially if they are short and few, though they show the person to be of a weak constitution, yet they denote him to be of a meek disposition, honest, faithful and secret in whatsoever he is intrusted with.  To have some teeth longer and shorter than others, denotes a person to be of a good apprehension, but bold, disdainful, envious and proud.  To have the teeth very long, and growing sharp towards the end,

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