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with violet, it gives the delicious hue of the lilach 

 flower J mixed with blue, it makes azure; and 

 with black, produces pearl-gray ; but melted 

 away into red, it exhibits the rofe colour, that en- 

 chanting tint, which is the flower of life. On the 

 other hand, according to the predominance of 

 black in colours which are gay, the effeft pro- 

 duced is more mournful than would have refulted 

 from unmixed black. This becomes perceptible 

 on blending it with yellow, orange, and red, 

 which are thereby rendered dull and gloomy co- 

 lours. Red gives life to every tint into which it 

 is infufed, as white communicates gaiety, and black 

 -fad nefs. 



If you would wifli to produce efFeds entirely 

 oppofite to mod of thofe which I have been juft 

 •indicating, you have only to place the extreme co- 

 lours clofely by each other, without mingling 

 them. Black, oppofed to white, produces the 

 moft mournful, and the harfheft efied. Their 

 oppofition is a badge of mourning among mofb 

 Nations, as it is the lignai of impending deftruc- 

 tion in the tempeftuous appearances of the Hea- 

 vens, and in the commotions of the Ocean. The 

 yellow too, oppofed to black, is the charaâ:erifl:ic 

 of many dangerous animals, as the wafp, the ty- 

 ger, and feveral others....! do not pretend to infi- 

 nuate, that the women have not the fkill of em- 

 ploying 



