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than the moft decided uglinefs; for when, at- 

 tracted by an apparent goodnefs, we actually find 

 difhonefty and perfidy, we are feized with horror, 

 as when we find a ferpent lurking in a bed of 

 flowers. Such is the deteftable character generally 

 afcribed to courtiers. 



Moral beauty, then, is that after which we are 

 bound to afpire, that it's divine irradiations may 

 be difTufed over our features, and over our actions. 

 To no purpofe will a Prince himfelf make Iks 

 boaft of high birth, riches, credit, wit; the People, 

 inorder to know him, muft look him in the face. 

 The People form their judgment of him entirely 

 from the phyfionomy : it is, in every country, the 

 firft, and, frequently, the lajt letter of recommen- 

 dation. 



OF CONCERTS. 



Concert is an order formed of feveral harmo- 

 nies of various kinds. It differs from fimple order 

 in this, that the laft is, frequently, nothing but a 

 feries of harmonies of the fame fpecies. 



• Every particular Work of Nature prefents, in 

 different kinds, harmonies, confonances, contrafts; 

 and forms a real concert. This we fhall more 



d 2 amply 



