VI PREFACE. 



ticular objects, with which each man is 

 indivifliially concerned. 



The first step towards acquiring an ex- 

 act taste and judgment in respect to visible 

 objects, is to gain an accurate knowledge 

 of their leading characters ; I, therefore, in 



my first Essay, traced the character of the 



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Picturesque, its qualities, effects,, and at- 

 tractions, as distinct from those of the Sub- 

 lime and Beautiful, through the different 

 works of nature and art. 



The next step was to shew, that not only 

 the effect of picturesque objects, but of all 

 visible objects whatever, are to be judged 

 of by the great leading principles of Paint- 

 ing; which principles, though they are really 

 founded in nature, and totally independent 

 of art, are, however, most easily and use- 

 fully studied in the pictures of eminent 

 painters. On these two points, which, I 



