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features, said, that this was the most licen-tious and drunken old fellow he had everseen. The disciples of Socrates laughed athis pretended skill, but Socrates told him,that he was perfectly correct, for that his na-tural propensities would have drawn himinto these two vices, if he had not opposedthem by all his precepts of philosophy.’

“ Lavater quoted passages from Aris-'totle, Baptiste Porte, and other authors,upon whose works he affirmed that he hadfounded his system.

“ I had with me a fellow-traveller, anative of Hamburgh, and whispering toLavater , I begged him to observe the phy-siognomy of this man, and give me his opi-nion when he was gone. Our conversationturned upon the inhabitants of the differentcountries of Europe : and Lavater spoke ofthe English and French 'ladies—he divid-ed the English women into two classes.* The one,’ said he, ‘ is indiscreet, bold,and arrogant, the other is an angelic unionof loveliness and perfection.’ He instanced