Word: physiognomist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young Zwinglian minister whose liberal ideas had driven him out of Zurich. His intransigence grew with time, ripening into the melancholy sarcasm that was one of his more noted traits. "He is everything in extremes-always an original," wrote Fuseli's close friend, the physiognomist Lavater. "His look is lightning, his word a thunderstorm; his jest is NATIONAL PORT death, his revenge hell." Even Goethe, who met Fuseli in Rome in 1775, agreed with that. "What fire and fury the man has in him!" he exclaimed in a letter...
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