de prise et de surface a des impressions redoutables ou importunes."
He who thinks that remarks of this kind throw any light on the meaning
or origin of the different expressions, takes a very different view
of the subject to what I do.


[6] `L'Art de connaitre les Hommes,' &c., par G. Lavater. The earliest
edition of this work, referred to in the preface to the edition of 1820
in ten volumes, as containing the observations of M. Moreau, is said
to have been published in 1807; and I have no doubt that this is correct,
because the `Notice sur Lavater' at the commencement of volume i.
is dated April 13, 1806. In some bibliographical works, however, the date
of 1805--1809 is given, but it seems impossible that 1805 can be correct.
Dr. Duchenne remarks (`Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine,'-8vo edit.
1862, p. 5, and `Archives Generales de Medecine,' Jan. et Fev.
1862) that M. Moreau "_a compose pour son ouvrage un article important_,"
&c., in the year 1805; and I find in volume i. of the edition
of 1820 passages bearing the dates of December 12, 1805, and another
January 5, 1806, besides that of April 13, 1806, above referred to.
In consequence of some of these passages having thus been COMPOSED in 1805,
Dr. Duchenne assigns to M. Moreau the priority over Sir C. Bell,
whose work, as we have seen, was published in 1806. This is a very
unusual manner of determining the priority of scientific works;
but such questions are of extremely little importance in comparison
with their relative merits. The passages above quoted from M. Moreau
and from Le Brun are taken in this and all other cases from the edition
of 1820 of Lavater, tom. iv. p. 228, and tom. ix. p. 279. " In
the above passage there is but a slight, if any, advance in the philosophy
of the subject, beyond that reached by the painter Le Brun, who, in 1667,
in describing the expression of fright, says:--"Le sourcil qui est abaisse