Aristotle's works:: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies — Aristotle — John Shaqi
Aristotle's works:: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies
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A tongue to be too swift of speech shows a man to be downright foolish,
or at best but a very vain wit. A stammering tongue, or one that
stumbles in the mouth, signifies a man of a weak understanding, and of a
wavering mind, quickly in rage, and soon pacified. A very thick and
rough tongue denotes a man to be apprehensive, subtle, and full of
compliments, yet vain and deceitful, treacherous, and prone to impiety.
A thin tongue shows a man of wisdom and sound judgment, very ingenious,
and of an affable disposition, yet sometimes timorous, and too
credulous.
A great and full voice in either sex shows them to be of a great spirit,
confident, proud, and wilful. A faint and weak voice, attended with but
little breath, show a person to be of a good understanding, a nimble
fancy, a little eater, but weak of body, and of a timorous disposition.
A loud and shrill voice which sounds clearly, denotes a person
provident, sagacious, true, and ingenious, but withal capricious,
vain-glorious, and too credulous. A strong voice when a man sings,
denotes him to be of a strong constitution, and of a good understanding,
neither too penurious nor too prodigal, also ingenious, and an admirer
of the fair sex. A weak and trembling voice shows the owner of it to be
envious, suspicious, slow in business, feeble and fearful. A loud,
shrill, and unpleasant voice signifies one bold and valiant, but
quarrelsome and injurious, and altogether wedded to his own humours, and
governed by his own counsels. A rough and hoarse voice, whether in
speaking or singing, declares one to be a dull and heavy person, of much
guts and little brain. A full and yet mild voice and pleasing to the
hearer, shows the person to be of a quiet and peaceable disposition,
(which is a great virtue, and rare to be found in a woman) and also very
thrifty and secret, not prone to anger, but of a yielding temper. A
voice beginning low or in the bass, and ending high in the treble,
denotes a person to be violent, angry, bold and secure.
A thick and full chin abounding with too much flesh, shows a man
inclined to peace, honest and true to his trust, but slow in invention,
and easy to be drawn either to good or evil. A peaked chin and
reasonably full of flesh, shows a person to be of a good understanding,
a high spirit, and laudable conversation. A double chin shows a
peaceable disposition, but dull of apprehension, vain, credulous, a
great supplanter, and secret in all his actions. A crooked chin, bending
upwards and peaked for want of flesh, is by the rules of physiognomy,
according to nature a very bad man, being proud, impudent, envious,
threatening, deceitful, prone to anger and treachery, and a great thief.