TITUS, the successor and son of Vespasian, inherited his father’s
profile, and it is a marked corroboration of our theory that avarice is
the only vice attributed to that otherwise virtuous prince.
It must, however, be observed, that the Noses, both of Vespasian and his
son, were not purely Jewish, but _Judæo-Roman_ IV⁄I; a formation which
corresponds accurately with other peculiarities in the character of
those great generals, too well known to need further elucidation.
CHAPTER VII.
OF THE SNUB NOSE AND THE CELESTIAL NOSE.
CLASSES V and VI.—The SNUB NOSE and the TURN-UP (_poeticè_ CELESTIAL)
NOSE.
The form of the former is sufficiently indicated by its name. The
latter is distinguished by its presenting a continuous concavity
from the eyes to the tip. It is converse in shape to the Jewish
Nose. N.B. It must not be confounded with a Nose which, belonging to
one of the other Classes in the upper part, terminates in a slight
distention of the tip; for this, so far from prejudicing the
character, rather adds to it warmth and activity.
We associate the Snub and the Celestial in nearly the same category,
as they both indicate natural weakness; mean, disagreeable
disposition; with petty insolence, and divers other characteristics
of conscious weakness, which strongly assimilate them (indeed, a
true Celestial Nose is only a Snub turned up); while their general
poverty of distinctive character makes it almost impossible to
distinguish their psychology. Nevertheless, there is a difference
between their indications; arising, however, rather from degree than
character. The Celestial is, by virtue of its greater length,
decidedly preferable to the Snub, as it has all the above
unfortunate propensities in a much less degree, and is not without
some share of small shrewdness and fox-like common sense; on which,
however, it is apt to presume, and is, therefore, a more impudent
Nose than the Snub.
It is with considerable distaste and reluctance that we approach the
latter divisions of our Classification. _Pœnitet me hujus Nasi._ We wish
we had never undertaken to write of these Noses. Having done so,
however, we must fulfil our engagement. But the mind shrinks from the
thought, that after contemplating the powerful Roman-nosed movers of the
world’s destinies, or the refined and elegant Greek-nosed arbiters of
art, or the deep and serious-minded thinkers with Cogitative Noses, it
must descend to the horrid bathos, the imbecile inanity of the Snub.
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