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fhort, that we mould not attend merely to 

 a confined notion of beauty as a feparate 

 quality, but to a more enlarged and ge- 

 neral idea of it. 



Before I publifhed my Eflay, I was told 

 by a friend who had read it in MS. that 

 the admirers of Mr. Brown's fyftem would 

 certainly take advantage of my diftinclion, 

 profefs themfelves fatisfied with beauty 

 alone, and ready to give up the piclu- 

 refque: notwithftanding my friend's pro- 

 phecy, I can fcarcely hope that they will 

 give me fuch an advantage. In the firft 

 place, before they give up all pretenfion 

 to one objecl of improvement, it would be 

 prudent to eftablifh their title to the other ; 

 and I hope, in the courfe of this Letter, to 

 exhibit fome glaring proofs how great 

 their imprudence would be in that point 

 of view. In the next place, I fuppofe it 

 will be allowed, that there are (in every 



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