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The following have pure, or very nearly pure, Roman Noses:—

Rameses II (Sesostris).

Julius Cæsar.

Henri Quatre.

Charles V. of Spain.

Duke of Wellington.

Canute.

Gonzalo de Cordova (the Great Captain).

William III.

Sir W. Wallace.

Condé (the Great).

Robert Bruce.

Queen Elizabeth.

Edward I.

Columbus.

Sir Francis Drake.

Cortez.

Pizarro.

Washington.

Henry VII.

Cato the Censor.

Earl of Chatham.

Ignatius Loyola.

The well-known, because (as their Noses likewise attest) strongly marked, characters of these persons render it unnecessary to allude even briefly to their biographies. Their names are sufficient to bring at once before the mind their energetic, persevering, and determined characters. They were persons whom no hardships could deter, no fears daunt, no affections turn aside from any purpose which they had undertaken: that purpose being (from the absence of the Cogitative) always of a physical character; and (from the absence of the Greek) always pursued with a stern and reckless disregard of their own and others’ physical ease and welfare. Their successes were attained by energy and perseverance, not by forethought and deep scheming. They were not the men of the closet, but of the field. Physical action, not mental activity, was their adopted road to success. For this reason, and because history is little more than a chronicle of physical action, wars and bloodshed, the owners of Roman Noses occupy the largest portion of their fellow-men’s thoughts and of the historical page.