10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METOPOSCOPIC»
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1
Titian's Portraits through Aretino's Lens
So too in his sonnet describing the portrait of the Duchess of Urbino, Aretino
stresses the part of the face around the forehead, which he sees as reflecting the
merits of this virtuous lady. 119 By his "metoposcopic" approach to portraits, ...
2
On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries: Being the ...
D, S T Coleridge, Trench ,, sb. order, Bp Burnet Methodical, adj. Burke Methodize
, v. a. TBrown, Addison, Times Methought, T, Warter Metonomatosis, sb. Hare
Metonymy, sb. M Metoposcopic, sb. Aubrey Metre, sb. \V, Johnson, Marsh
Metrical, ...
Richard Chenevix Trench, 1857
3
Universal Historical Dictionary: Or, Explanation of the ...
Metoposcopic Aphorisms.' 3. ' On Beer.' AGETUS 'A'ynroe, the son of Alcidis, who
was compelled by fraud to give up his wife to his friend Ariston. Herod. l. 6, c. 1. _
AGGAS, Ral- h (Biog) a surveyor and engraver of the 16th century. e drew ...
4
The slave-king [tr. and altered] from Bug-Jargal
When the conference was ended, Biassou whispered something to the Ouanga,
who heard it as if he heard it not, so intensely did he pretend to be interested in
his metoposcopic operations. " Happy are they," said he, " on whose foreheads, ...
When the conference was ended, Biassou whispered something to the Ouanga,
who heard it as if he heard it not, so intensely did he pretend to be interested in
his metoposcopic operations. " Happy are they," said he, " on whose foreheads, ...
6
The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe
One or more would be attributed to a given subject according to her or his
particular ensemble of signs. Like the metoposcopic treatise associated with Ciro
Spontoni (c.1552–1610), Cardano's includes a category of the sodomite,
distinguished ...
Kenneth Borris, George S. Rousseau, 2013
7
Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/colonial ...
Patently, Hugo's reading of this body is as spurious as the "metoposcopic"
readings of facial traits in which Habibrah, in the guise of camp obi, engages for
the amusement of Biassou and his troops (as when he notes, for instance, that "
the ...
8
Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/colonial ...
The metoposcopic auguries of the rebel camp's sorceror, Habibrah, are, for
instance, supplemented by a note attesting to the fact that 'even in regenerated St
. Domingo the same kind of character is found' (Hugo, 1833, 137), and as
evidence ...
9
A General Catalogue of Valuable and Rare Old Books, in the ...
It was reprinted, with the plates in 4to. 1651 and in 1665, hut the curious prefer
this edition." — Dibdin's Spec. Bibl, Britt p. 57. 2932. SAUNDERS'S (Richard)
Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopic, The Symmetrical Proportions
and ...
10
Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of ...
... Moldenarius, and Fuchs also give references to Renaissance contributions to
the subject.22" Cardano avers that all metoposcopic signs are ambiguous or
plurivalent; but that does not deter him from describing the subject in positive
terms, ...
