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 head leaning much forward, and their arms very little extended.   women, on the contrary, are to be represented bold and quick, with passionate motions, like furies. But the motions are to appear a great deal quicker in their arms than in their legs.   are to be represented in modest and reserved attitudes, with their knees rather close, their arms drawing near each other, or folded about the body; their heads looking downwards, and leaning a little on one side.   of your figures should be expressive of their different situations: men at work, at rest, weeping, laughing, crying out, in fear, or joy, and the like. The attitudes also, and all the members, ought to correspond with the sentiment expressed in the faces.   motions of the different parts of the face, occasioned by sudden agitations of the mind, are Rh