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ing bow scarce a thing beauty is, even in 

 this country, where, in comparison with 

 many others, it so much abounds; and how 

 very few, among those who really deserved 

 that title, approached towards that perfec- 

 tion, of which none had a juster or nicer con- 

 ception than himself ; nor was he to be inform- 

 ed, that in most languages the epithet rare 

 Ls constantly applied to beauty ; and the 

 opposite one of common, or ordinary, to 

 the faces and figures of women who are to- 

 tally void of it. If more instances were 

 required in so plain a case, there is a very 

 peculiar one in the Italian language— that 

 of applyingthe epithet pettegrina, or foreign, 

 to beauty; the Italians say beUezze pelle- 

 grine, leggiadria singolare et pellegrina, as 

 if beauty in any high degree was so rare, 

 that they could not look for it within their 

 own well-known limits, but could only 

 hope that it might visit them from some 

 distant, and more fortunate region. I£ 

 then, Beauty be as rare as these expres- 

 sions, and our own experience shew it to 

 be. it can hardly be called the most general 



