This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...sarcasm, frivolity, criticism, and contradiction. self, that for seven years' space he had such black spots in his nails, and all that while was in perpetual law-suits, controversies for his inheritance, fear, loss of honour, banishment, grief, care, etc., and when his miseries ended the black spots vanished. Cardan, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...sarcasm, frivolity, criticism, and contradiction. self, that for seven years' space he had such black spots in his nails, and all that while was in perpetual law-suits, controversies for his inheritance, fear, loss of honour, banishment, grief, care, etc., and when his miseries ended the black spots vanished. Cardan, in his book ' De Libris Propriis, ' tells such a story of his own person, that a little before his son's death he had a black spot which appeared in one of his nails and dilated itself as he came nearer to his end. But I am tedious in these toys, which, howsoever in some men's too severe censures they may be held absurd and ridiculous, I am the bolder to insert as not borrowed from circumforean rogues and gypsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers in famous universities, who are able to patronize that which they have said, and vindicate themselves from all cavillers and ignorant persons." It goes almost without saying that when the nails 1254. are short from the habit of biting them they indicate Bitten nails, nervousness, abstraction, subjection to fits of melancholy, a worrying disposition, and continual irritation. This is still more the case if the ends of the fingers are spatulated. White and polished, soft in texture, with a ten-f255. dency to pinkness by reason of their transparency, 'nln's and of a normal and well-proportioned length, the nails indicate a good spirit, delicacy of mind, sensitiveness, tact, and good taste. Albertus Magnus states that round and rough nails 1256. show a great capacity for attachment, whilst very white Ex'remes f or dark-coloured nails betray malignity of disposition. condition. If the nails are long and curved they denote fero-1"257. city and cruelty. According to Gaule, they "si...
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HORSLEY, ROSAMUND BRUNEL. FAIR. 5X7. General wear to cover and spine. rubbing to edges of cover and spine. wear to black endpapers. being a complete manual handbook of the twin sciences of Cheirognomy and Cheiromancy by means whereof the Past, The Present, and the Future may be read in The Formation of the Hands. faded red edges. pages are clean. black illustrations throughout. _PAB_