6 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



As the eyes are the principal organs of the foul, 

 they are deftined to exprefs all it's emotions ; 

 which could not have been done with the harmo- 

 nic red tint, for this would have given but one 

 fingle expreffion. Nature, in order there to exprefs 

 the contrary paffions, has united in the eye the 

 two mod oppofite of colours, the white of the or- 

 bit and the black of the iris, and fometimes of the 

 ball, which form a very harm oppofttion, when 

 the globes of the eyes are difplayed in the full ex- 

 tent of their diameter; but by means of the eye- 

 lids, which Man can contract, or dilate, at plea- 

 fure, he is enabled to give them the expreffion of 

 all the paffions, from love to fury. 



Thofe eyes whofe balls are blue are naturally 

 the fofteft, becaufe the oppofition, in this cafe, is 

 lefs harfh with the adjacent white ; but they are 

 the moll terrible of all when animated with rage, 

 and this from a moral contrail, which conftrains 

 us to confider thofe as the mod formidable of all 

 objects, that menace evil, after having encouraged 

 us to expect good. Perfons, therefore, who are 

 thus diftinguifhed, ought to be carefully on their 

 guard againft treachery to that character of bene- 

 volence bellowed on them by Nature ; for blue 

 eyes exprefs, by their colour, fomething enchant- 

 jngly celeftial. 



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