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_Intoxication_ shews itself by the eyes half shut, sleepy, stupid,
inflamed. An idiot smile, a ridiculous surliness, an affected bravado,
disgraces the bloated countenance. The mouth open tumbles out nonsense
in heaps, without articulation enough for any ear to take it in, and
unworthy of attention, if it could be taken In. The head seems too heavy
for the neck. The arms dangle from the shoulders; as if they were almost
cut away, and hung by shreds. The legs totter and bend at the knees, as
ready to sink under the weight of the reeling body. And a general
incapacity, corporeal and mental, exhibits human nature sunk below the
brutal.
_Anger_, (violent) or _Rage_ expresses itself with rapidity,
interruption, noise, harshness, and trepidation. The neck stretched
out; the head forward, often nodding and shaken in a menacing manner,
against the object of the passion. The eyes red, inflamed, staring,
rolling, and sparkling; the eyebrows drawn down over them; and the
forehead wrinkled into clouds. The nostrils stretched wide; every vein
swelled; every muscle strained; the breast heaving, and the breath
fetched hard. The mouth open, and drawn on each side toward the ears,
shewing the teeth in a gnashing posture. The face bloated, pale, red, or
sometimes almost black. The feet stamping: the right arm often thrown
out, and menacing with the clenched fist shaken, and a general end
violent agitation of the whole body.
_Peevishism_ or _Ill-nature_ is a lower degree of anger; and is
therefore expressed in the above manner, only more moderate, with half
sentences, and broken speeches, uttered hastily; the upper lip drawn up
disdainfully; the eyes asquint upon the object of displeasure.
_Malice_ or _Spite_, sets the jaws, or gnashes with the teeth; sends
blasting flashes from the eyes; draws the mouth toward the ears;
clenches both fists, and bends the elbows in a straining manner. The
tone of voice and expression, are much the same with that of anger; but
the pitch not so loud.
_Envy_ is a little more moderate in its gestures than malice, but much
the same in kind.
_Revenge_ expresses itself as malice.
_Cruelty_. See _Anger_, _Aversion_, _Malice_ and the other irrascible
passions.
_Complaining_ as when one is under violent bodily pain, distorts the
features; almost closes the eyes; sometimes raises them wishfully; opens
the mouth; gnashes with the teeth; draws up the upper lip; draws down
the head upon the breas
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