therefore, a small one be enlarged, and a large one made small? We have
seen a person with a _bunch_ of _noses_, but can only, on the authority of
Shakspeare, quote one "who had a thousand."

For a great length of time nothing was admired in the world but Roman
noses,--and then not a word was heard about them, till William III. brought
them again into fashion.

People occasionally possess the power of voluntary action with the muscles
of the nose, and can move it horizontally, or to the right and left,--draw
it up or protrude it,--so as to make it take any position they please.
Painters have been provokingly deceived by this stratagem, and have in vain
attempted the portraits of such persons, who were able at every instant to
produce a new physiognomy.

One of the qualifications for the Ugly Club was a nose eminently
miscalculated, whether as to length or breadth,--the thickest skin had
preference.

Hitherto we have only considered external appearances; we must now notice
its functional and other properties.

With some persons, the nose is a sort of barometer,--a certain state of the
atmosphere is invariably announced to them by an agreeable sensation of
coldness at the tip.

Zimmerman used to draw conclusions, as to a man's temperament, from his
_nose!_ Not indeed from its size or form, but from the peculiar sensibility
of the organ.

Cardan considered acuteness of smell as a proof of penetrating genius, and
a lively imagination.

Haller could distinguish perspiration at ten yards' distance.

There have been instances on record of blind people who were able to
discover colours by the touch; and deaf and dumb, who could feel sounds by
placing their hand upon the speaker's mouth: this, however, is not more
astonishing, than that the sense of smelling should be so acute, as to
enable some persons to judge by it the quality of metals. Martial mentions
a person, named Mamurra, who consulted only his nose, to ascertain whether
the copper that was brought him were true Corinthian. There have been
Indian merchants who, if a piece of money were given them, by applying
their nose to it, defined its quality to a nicety, without touchstone,
balance, or aqua-fortis. Europeans, also, are to be found whose sense of
smelling is equally delicate and perfect.

Marco-Marci speaks of a monk at Prague, who, when any thing was brought
him, distinguished, by its smell, with as much certainty as the best nosed
dog, to whom it be