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ness of his disposition,—that some tender ideas would have crossed his mind and melted
the obduracy of his heart; but he continues hardened and callous to every admonition.
The group of figures composing this print has been copied by the ingenious Lavater;
with whose appropriate remarks we conclude our present description. " Observe,"
says this great analyst of the human countenance, " in the annexed group, that unnatural
wretch, with the infernal visage, insulting his supplicating mother; the predominant
character on the three other villain-faces, though all disfigured by effrontery, is cunning
and ironical malignity. Every face is a seal with this truth engraved on it: ' Nothing
makes a man so ugly as vice; nothing renders the countenance so hideous as villainy.'"