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cacy of fentlment, that eminent ftatuaries have 

 been enabled to make men feel the juflnefs of 

 proportion in the works of Nature. The an- 

 cients made ftatues fo exquifitely tine, that they 

 have uniformly been regarded as exadt repre- 

 fentations of the moft perfed: human figures. 

 Thefe ftatues, which were only copies of the 

 human form, are now confidcred as originals ; 

 becaufe they were not imitated from an indivi- 

 dual, but from the whoiC fpecies, fo attentively 

 compared and diligently obferved, that it is im- 

 poflible to lind an equal degree of fymmetry 

 and proportion in any one man that ever ex- 

 ifted. We Ihall, therefore, relate the dimcn- 

 fions of the diflercnt parts which thefe artifts 

 have fixed as ftandards of perfedion. They 

 commonly divide the height of the body into 

 ten times the length of the lace ; they likev^ife 

 divide eachyizc^, or tenth of the body, into three 

 equal parts ; the firft commences at the fpring- 

 ing of the hair on the forehead, and terminates 

 at the root of the nofc ; the nofe is the fecond 

 divifion ; and the third extends from the nofe 

 to the end of the chin. In meafuring the refl 

 of the body, they ufe the term nofi^ or length 

 of the nofc, to denote the third of a face, or the 

 thirtieth part of the body. The firll face be- 

 gins at the root of the hair above the forehead, 

 and extends to the end of the chin ; bur, from 

 the top of the forehead to the crown, there is 

 ftili a third of a face, or a nofe, in height. 1 bus, 



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