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How can we reconcile the foregoing phenomena ? — Painting 

 and Sculpture, diredly, as their chief objed, exhibit the body ; 

 hiftory and poetry, the adions, charadlers, and fentiments of man. 

 As, the flern and ferocious predominated, among the Greeks, in the 

 latter, fo the beautiful and the graceful, in an equal meafure, 

 prevailed in the former ; and Greece was the peculiar region of 

 fine forms. In fad, as we approximate to the eaft, we feem to 

 approach the favourite feats of Venus and the Graces ; where 

 human nature produces and rears her children, with a partial 

 care, and diftinguifhedfondnefs- 



The perfonal advantages, which the Grecian youth derived 

 from nature, were heightened by art. The fymmetry and 

 ftrength of the young men muft have been improved, and the 

 vigour and agility of their limbs encreafed, by a conftant ufe 

 of the various exercifes of the paleftra, in which they were early 

 initiated ; and the young perfons of both fexes were paflionately 

 addided to the exercife of dancing, and generally excelled in it. 

 AH the claffic writers, that have occafion to allude to the Grecian 

 manners and cuftoms, take notice of the univerfal prevalence of 

 this exercife in Greece. The dance is fuppofed to have been a 

 component part of their theatrical reprefentations; it had a place, in 

 many of their religious rites -, and their very divinities, Diana and 

 her Nymphs, were reprefented as dancing- 



" Qualis aut Eurotas ripis aut per juga Cynthi," &c. 



These 



luxurious and defirablc in a part (hould counteract the effeft in the whole ; and dif- 

 cordant feelings be excited. 



