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what was moft efteemed in either fex. Vir- 

 tue therefore feems to be in a moral and 

 metaphyfical light, precifely what beauty 

 is with regard to fenfible objects; and no 

 one, I imagine, who underftands modern, 

 or ancient languages, will venture to aflert, 

 that becaufe there is a collective idea of virtue, 

 therefore there is no confined idea annexed 

 to the word. The qualities of union, har- 

 mowy, connection, &c. are not peculiar 

 to the beautiful as diftinct from the fub- 

 lime, or the picturefque ; they are qua- 

 lities common to them all ; they are gene- 

 ral, not difcriminating qualities; they are 

 Tieceffary to give effect: to the diftincl: and 

 peculiar qualities of each of thofe characters, 

 but do not therefore deftroy, or confound 

 them. 



For inftance, a number of broken rocks, 

 and rugged old trees, with a ftony torrent 

 dafhing among them, are all ingredients of 



the 



