, some in

    pasteboard

   ; which is a hint to shew there may not only be

    block-heads

   , but also

    paper-skulls

   .

   Physicians acquaint us that, upon any fright or alarm, the spirits fly up into the

    head

   , and the blood rushes violently back to the

    heart

   . Hence it is, politicians compare the human constitution and the nation's constitution together: they supposing the head to be the

    court

   end of the town, and the heart the

    country

   ; for people in the country seem to be taking things to heart, and people at court seem to wish to be at the head of things.

   We make a mighty bustle about the twenty-four letters; how many changes they can ring, and how many volumes they have composed; yet, let us look upon the many millions of mankind, and see if any two faces are alike. Nature never designed several faces which we see; it is the odd exercise they give the muscles belonging to their visages occasions such looks: as, for example; we meet in the streets with several people talking to themselves, and seem much pleased with such conversation. [

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