Rameses II (Sesostris).
Julius Cæsar.
Henri Quatre.
Charles V. of Spain.
Duke of Wellington.
Canute.
Gonzalo de Cordova (the Great Captain).
William III.
Sir W. Wallace.
Condé (the Great).
Robert Bruce.
Queen Elizabeth.
Edward I.
Columbus.
Sir Francis Drake.
Cortez.
Pizarro.
Washington.
Henry VII.
Cato the Censor.
Earl of Chatham.
Ignatius Loyola.
The well-known, because (as their Noses likewise attest) strongly
marked, characters of these persons render it unnecessary to allude even
briefly to their biographies. Their names are sufficient to bring at
once before the mind their energetic, persevering, and determined
characters. They were persons whom no hardships could deter, no fears
daunt, no affections turn aside from any purpose which they had
undertaken: that purpose being (from the absence of the Cogitative)
always of a physical character; and (from the absence of the Greek)
always pursued with a stern and reckless disregard of their own and
others’ physical ease and welfare. Their successes were attained by
energy and perseverance, not by forethought and deep scheming. They were
not the men of the closet, but of the field. Physical action, not mental
activity, was their adopted road to success. For this reason, and
because history is little more than a chronicle of physical action, wars
and bloodshed, the owners of Roman Noses occupy the largest portion of
their fellow-men’s thoughts and of the historical page.
The ancients acknowledged the foregoing Nasal Classification, for they
represented Jupiter, Hercules, Minerva, Bellatrix, and other energetic
Deities with Roman Noses, which Plato designates, from its being
indicative of Power and Energy, ‘the Royal Nose,’—while they gave pure
Greek Noses to the more refined Apollo, Bacchus, Juno, Venus, &c. The
debased and unintellectual Fawn and Satyr they pourtrayed with Snub or
Celestial Noses; thus imparting to their countenances the low cunning or
bestial inanity appropriate to those mythological inventions.
It must not, however, be inferred from the majority of warriors’ names
in the above list, that the Roman Nose necessarily indicates a warrior.
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