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all that enthufiaftlc energy. Vice itfelf, in order 

 to pleafe, is under the neceflîty of borrowing it's 

 looks and it's language. If theatrical female per- 

 formers captivate fo many lovers, the feduftion is 

 carried on by means of the illufions of innocence, 

 of benevolence, and of magnanimity, difplayed in 

 the charadlers of the (hepherdefles, of the heroines, 

 and of the goddelTes, which they are accuftomed 

 to reprefent. Their boafled graces are only the 

 appearances of the virtues which they counterfeit. 

 If fometimes, on the contrary, virtue becomes 

 difpleafing, it is becaufe fhe exhibits herfelf in the 

 difguife of harflinefs, caprice, peevilhnefs, or fome 

 ©ther repulfive bad quality. 



Thus, beauty is the offspring of virtue, and ug- 

 linefs that of vice ; and thefe characters frequently 

 imprefs themfelves from the earlieft infancy by 

 means of education. It will be objeded to me, 

 that there are men handfome, yet vicious, and 

 others homely, yet virtuous. Socrates and J/ci- 

 biades have been adduced as noted inftances, in an- 

 cient times. But thefe very examples confirm my 

 pofition. Socrates was unhappy and vicious at the 

 time of life when the phyfionomy affumes it's prin- 

 cipal charaders, from infancy up to the age of fe- 

 venteen years. He was born in a poor condition ; 

 his father had determined, notwithftanding his de- 

 clared reludance, to breed him to thç art of fculp-r 



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