Identifier: columbianmagazin21788phil (find matches)
Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1788 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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hiilory. 1 advance it thofe who are actuated by fordid ava-rice only. Among the Romansemancipation required but one effort.The fiave, when made free, mightmix with, without ftaining the blood,of his mailer. But with us a fecondis neceffary, unknown to hiflory.When freed, he is to be removedbeyond the reach of mixture. ••—--» To the Editor of the Columbian Magazine. SIR, H E annexed profiles, andtheir refpe&ive characler-iftics, are copied from the fecondvolume of Lavaters effay onphyfiognomy. This work, whichhas not yet been tranflated fromthe French, has cecafioned confi-derable fpeculation among the learn-ed and ingenious men of Europe. The author treats his fubjec*l as afcience ; and his remarks, whichappear, indeed, at firft view, to bemore fanciful than jult, have, atleaft, the merit of novelty. Butin the great collection of portraitswhich his volumes contain, everyreader will, probably, difcover acountenance that refembles fome friend
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An EJpty on Tranquillity of Mind. 145 friend or acquaintance, and this No. II. will Furnjfh the bell criterion to WITH refpeft to the fecond judge of the authors fkill and profile, continues our author ; it pretenlionsas a phyfiognomitl. Con- may be exhibited as the model of a ceiving, therefore, that the profiles Thinker, full of fagacity and perie- novv before us, bear a ftrong like-nefs to two of the moll dittino-uifh- o ed citizens of America, and that their characters are happily deline-ated in Monf. Lavaters obferva tration. This happy phyfiognomycharacterizes, to a miracle, a mindwhich can elevate itfelf without thetrouble of extraordinary exertions :it befpeaks a man who profecutes tions, we have feiecied them for his defigns with a rational perfeve- the entertainment of our readers; ranee, but is, at the fame time, ex- and as a favourable teilimony of empt from a conceited obftinacy. that gentlemans talents and pene- In another part of this volume, tration. We (hall take a fu

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