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. 1873 Excerpt: ...to speech--the great instrument of human thought--is widely dispersed; that is, for the utterance of sound there must conform a motion of the lungs or chest, an adjustment of the larynx and pharynx, and a fine modulation of the lips. It is more directly from the motions of the tongue and lips that articulate sounds ...
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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. 1873 Excerpt: ...to speech--the great instrument of human thought--is widely dispersed; that is, for the utterance of sound there must conform a motion of the lungs or chest, an adjustment of the larynx and pharynx, and a fine modulation of the lips. It is more directly from the motions of the tongue and lips that articulate sounds proceed; and the connection of the numerous muscles brought into operation in these actions is congenital with the awakening intellect. Long before a child is taught to speak, we may see an imperfect agitation of the lips and cheeks; and sounds are uttered which wait only for the effort of imitation to become language. These remarks bear out our former statement, that beauty in the lips and lower part of the countenance of a well-formed face has relation to the perfection of the structure viewed in connection with speech, and in contrast with the apparatus for mastication. The possession of an instrument of speech is instinctively associated in our thoughts with the most exalted endowments of man, moral and intellectual. OF THE BEARD Vidi preeso di me nn veglio solo, Degna di tanta rivereuza in vista, Cho piu non dee a padre alcun figliolo. Lnnga la barba e di pel bianca mista, Portava a' suoi capegli Bimigliante De quai cadeva al petto doppia lista."--Dante. The stages of man's life are outwardly characterized. An opinion prevails that the form and lineaments of old age are a consequence of the deterioration of the material of our frame; and that the resemblance, so often drawn, between an aged man leaning on his staff and a ruin tottering to its fall, is a perfect one. It is not so; the material of the frame is ever the same; years affect it not; but infancy, youth, maturity, and old age have their appropriate outward characters. Why shoul...
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