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improved in fpirlt and energy. Such was 

 the progrefs of our conftitution, fuch is its 

 character; fuch alfo was the progrefs of 

 painting, fuch the character of its higheft 

 productions, at its brighteft period. The 

 later artifts from Carlo Marat, loft that 

 firmnefs, variety, and energy, and became 

 mannered, cold, and infipid. Such in- 

 deed is the natural progrefs of human arts 

 and inftitutions: the progrefs from op- 

 preffion to anarchy, (of which we have 

 feen fuch an awful example) is not more 

 natural, than from the eafe of freedom and 

 fecurity, to indolence and apathy : let Eng- 

 land beware ; let her guard no lefs againft 

 the one, than againft the other extreme; 

 they generate each other in fucceflion, for 

 apathy invites oppreflion, and oppreflion 

 is the parent of anarchy. 



Having faid thus much with refpecl to 

 your general defence of Mr. Brown's fyf-* 



tern 



