cter. The voice
low; the tone submissive; and words few.

_Perplexity_, or _anxiety_, which is always attended with some degree of
fear and uneasiness, draws all the parts of the body together; gathers
up the arms upon the breast, unless one hand covers the eyes, or rubs
the forehead; draws down the eyebrows; hangs the head upon the breast;
casts down the eyes; shuts and pinches the eye-lids close; shuts the
month, and pinches the lips close, or bites them. Suddenly the whole
body is vehemently agitated. The person walks about busily; stops
abruptly: then he talks to himself, or makes grimaces. If he speaks to
another, his pauses are very long; the tone of his voice, unvarying, and
his sentences broken, expressing half, and keeping in half of what
arises in his mind.

_Vexation_, occasioned by some real or imaginary misfortune, agitates
the whole frame; and, besides expressing itself with the looks,
gestures, restlessness, and tone of perplexity, it adds complaint,
fretting, and lamenting.

_Pity_, a mixed passion of love and grief, looks down upon distress with
lifted hands; eyebrows drawn down; mouth open, and features drawn
together. Its expression, as to looks and gesture, is the same with
those of suffering, (see _Suffering_) but more moderate, as the painful
feelings are only sympathetic, and therefore one remove, as it were,
more distant from the soul, than what one feels in his own person.

_Grief_, sudden and violent, expresses itself by beating the head;
groveling on the ground; tearing of garments, hair, and flesh; screaming
aloud, weeping, stamping with the feet, lifting the eyes, from time to
time, to heaven; hurrying to and fro, running distracted, or fainting
away, sometimes without recovery. Sometimes violent grief produces a
torpid silence, resembling total apathy.

_Melancholy_, or fixed grief, is gloomy, sedentary, motionless. The
lower jaw falls; the lips pale; the eyes are cast down, half shut,
eye-lids swelled and red, or livid, tears trickling silent, and unwiped;
with a total inattention to every thing that passes. Words, if any, few,
and those dragged out, rather than spoken; the accents weak, and
interrupted, sighs breaking into the middle of sentences and words.

_Despair_, as in a condemned criminal, or one who has lost all hope of
salvation, bends the eyebrows downward; clouds the forehead; roils the
eyes around frightfully; opens the mouth towards the ears; bites the
lips; widens the