Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...

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Title: Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...
Author: J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.
Publication: London :: Printed by Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by R. Whitaker ...,; 1644.
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Subject terms: Sign language -- Early works to 1800.; Nonverbal communication.; Gesture.
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Cautio XXXI.

IN all Action, Nature beares the greatest sway: Every man must consider his own Nature and temperament. The reason is, because no man can put off his own, and put on anothers nature. One Action becomes one man, and another kind of behaviour, another. That which one does without Art, cannot wholly be delivered by Art; for there is a kind of hidden and ineffable reason, which to know, is the head of Art. In some, the Civill vertues themselves have no grace: in others, even the vices of Rhetorique are comely and pleasing. Wherefore a Rheto∣rician must know himselfe, yet not by common precepts; but he must take counsell of Nature for the framing of the complexionall and indi∣viduall properties of his Hand,