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Such being the power of mufic, to foothe and tranquillize the 

 mind, it mufl have tended to diffufe over the countenance an 

 expreffion of mild elevation and dignified compofure, and to give 

 noble and uncommon airs to the heads, fuch as, in fad, are found 

 in fome of the countenances and bufls, that ftill remain to us from 

 the hand of Grecian fculpture. 



Thus, wherefoever the poet and hiftorian turned their eyes, 

 they favv the fierce, the turbulent and cruel, in the moral part of 

 human nature, and flcetched their portraits accordingly, and 

 adapted their produdtions to the tafte of their readers or auditors : 

 Far different was the cafe of the fculptor and the painter; with 

 them all was delight and rapture ; from the corporeal part of 

 human nature, the faireft ideas of beauty and grace beamed incef- 

 fantly on their enchanted eyes. 



As a further demonftration of the ferocious charader of the 

 Greeks, I fhall mention here, though not precifely in its right 

 place, an obfervation, which I ought t6 have made before, that 

 the pradlice of expofing and deftroying new-born infants was 

 very general among them ; and, however cruel in itfelf, was not 

 marked with infamy, or confidered as including in it any degree 

 of moral turpitude. To convince us of this fa£t, we need not 

 refort farther than to the comedies of Terence^ who, we know, 

 was a clofe imitator of Menander, or rather, indeed, it is to be 

 fuppofed, that the comedies of the former were literal tran- 

 flations from thofe of the latter. Terence, then, muft be con- 

 fidered 



