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ings in the otlier. But as these impressions are various, both 

 in kind and degree, in the sex on whom they are made, hence 

 tlie common saying, that evertj eijc makes a beaiiti/. 



24. In a still more enlarged sense all visible forms that excite 

 admiration are termed beautiful. This admiration may arise 

 from various sources, too numerous to be here enumerated.* 

 Many, which originally were beheld with pleasing wonder, as 

 watches, &c. now cease to excite any, from our having been 

 Ions; accustomed to them. 



25. In a metaphorical or figurative sense, many objects not 

 visible arc often called beautiful ; thus we talk of beautiful 

 music, songs, sonatas, and even of beautiful single sounds ; 

 beautiful inventions, the beauty of virtue, beautiful allego- 

 ries, &c. nay even of beautiful theorems in mathematics; as 

 they all, by exciting admiration or approbation, j)roduce 

 pleasure analagous to those of vision. 



26. Grace denotes the beauty found in motions, gestures 

 or postures ; it consists in an expression of refinement, res- 

 pect, or of any of the milder passions, unlike the hast}', 

 awkard, impetuous motions and unbecoming postures of sa- 

 vages, or of the lower unpolished class of civilized society. 



27. The sense of the sublime is also a pleasure awakened 

 in us by vision, being excited by objects whose magnitude 

 suggests the existence of a power far exceeding the human : 

 thus lofty mountains, the apparently unbounded expanse of 



the 



* See I Blair's Lectures, p. 10+. 



