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we can trace any idea of the beautiful a» 

 separate from all other characters. 1 think 

 it clearly appears, that, although beauty of 

 the highest kind was attributed to all the 

 superior Goddesses, and that the ancient 

 artists endeavoured to express k in their re- 

 presentations of them, yet the beauty of 

 Venus, if not more perfect, was at least 

 without the smallest tinge of any other cha- 

 racter ; whereas Juno, Pallas, Diana, and 

 the other Goddesses had a mixture of awful 

 majesty, of the severity of wisdom, of war- 

 like valour, or of rigid chastity. These, in- 

 deed, were additions to beauty, but one may 

 properly say, that in this case, additio probat 

 minor cm : and what particularly strengthens 

 Mr. Burke's system is, that the effects which 

 all such additions produce, are opposite to 

 those of beauty. The effect of beauty, as 

 Mr. Burke has so well pointed out, whether 

 in the human species, in animals, or even 

 in inanimate objects, is love, or some pas- 

 sion the most nearly resembling it : now, 

 the effect of majesty or severity, even when 

 allied to beauty, is awe — a sensation very 



