"Physiognomical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... searchingly at me, and then again at Bob. My appearance was certainly not very prepossessing, unshaven as I was, and with my clothes and linen soiled and torn. He was evidently considering what could be the motive of our visit, and what had brought me into Bob's society. The result of his physiognomical observations did not appear very favourable either to me or my companion. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various
... the gesture of the actor. Darwin's book on the expression of the feelings in man and animals does not belong to Aesthetic; because there is nothing in common between the science of spiritual expression and a Semiotic, whether it be medical, meteorological, political, physiognomic, or chiromantic. ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce |
