28 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



air, live on the fame aliments, and, in general, 

 enjoy a fuperior degree of fortune. Accordingly, 

 they are far from being gentlemen both in name 

 and in fact Nay, there is a Nation bordering 

 upon ours, the fubjects of which are as much ce- 

 lebrated, all over Europe, for their pride as for 

 their homelinefs. All thofe men are rendered 

 hard-favoured from the fame caufes that moil of 

 our children degenerate in look -, who, however 

 amiable in early life, become ugly ongoing to col- 

 lege, from the miferies and irkfomenefs of their 

 inftitutions. I fay nothing of their natural cha- 

 racter, which undergoes the fame revolution with 

 their phyfionomy ; this laft being always a con- 

 fequence of the other. 



The fame thing does not hold good refpe&ing 

 the noblefle of fome other of our provincial dif- 

 tricts, and the nobility of other parts of Europe. 

 Thefe, living, as they do, in good underftanding 

 among themfelves, and with their compatriots, 

 are, in general, the handfomeft men of their Na- 

 tion, becaufe their focial and benevolent fpirit is 

 not in a ftate of inceflant conftraint and anxiety. 



To the fame moral caufes may be referred the 

 beauty of the features of the Greek and Roman 

 phyfionomies, where we generally meet with models 

 fo exquiiite, in their ftatues and medallions. They 



were 



