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 great head and round withal, denotes the person to be secret, and of
great application in carrying on business, and also ingenious, and of a
large imaginative faculty and invention; and likewise laborious,
constant and honest. The head whose gullet stands forth, and inclines
towards the earth, signifies a person thrifty, wise, peaceable, secret,
of a retired temper, and constant in the management of his affairs. A
long head and face, and great, withal, denotes a vain, foolish, idle,
and weak person, credulous and very envious. To have one’s head always
shaking, and moving from side to side, denotes a shallow, weak person,
unstable in all his actions, given to lying, a great deceiver, a great
talker, and prodigal in all his fortunes. A big head and broad face show
a man to be very courageous, a great hunter after women, very
suspicious, bold and shameless. He who hath a very big head, but not so
proportionate as it ought to the body, if he hath a short neck and
crooked gullet, is generally a man of apprehension, wise, secret,
ingenious, of sound judgment, faithful, true and courteous to all. He
who hath a little head, and long slender throat, is for the most part a
man very weak, yet apt to learn, but unfortunate in his actions. And so
much shall suffice with respect to the head and face.
CHAPTER III.
_Of Judgments drawn from several other parts of Man’s Body._
In the body of man, the head and face are the principal parts, being the
index which heaven has laid open to every one’s view to make a judgment
therefrom, therefore I have been the larger in my judgment from the
several parts thereof. But to the other parts, I shall be much more
brief, as not being so obvious to the eyes of men: yet I would proceed
in order.
The throat, if it be white, whether it be fat or lean, shows a man to be
vain-glorious, timorous, wanton, and very subject to choler. If the
throat be so thin and lean that the veins appear, it shows a man to be
weak, slow, and of a dull and heavy constitution.
A long neck shows one to have a long and slender foot, and that the
person is stiff and inflexible either to good or evil. A short neck
shows one to be witty and ingenious, but deceitful and inconstant, well
skilled in the use of arms, and yet cares not to use them, but is a
great lover of peace and quietness.
A lean shoulder bone signifies a man to be weak, timorous, peaceful, not
laborious, and yet fit for any employment. He whose shoulder-bones are
of a great bigness is commonly, by the rule of physiognomy, a strong
man, faithful, but unfortunate; somewhat dull of understanding, very
laborious, a great eater and drinker, and one equally contented in all
conditions. He whose shoulder bone seems to be smooth, is by the rule of
nature modest in his look, and temperate in all his actions, both at bed
and board. He whose shoulder bone bends and is crooked inwardly, is
commonly a dull person and deceitful.