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different from each other in their qualities* 

 or character, our notions of beauty, and our 

 application of the term, have been propor- 

 tionably lax and indistinct. To give them 

 a just degree of precision* it therefore was 

 not sufficient to point out what in its strict 

 acceptation is beautiful ; it was likewise 

 necessary to account for the pleasure which 

 we receive from numberless objects, neither 

 sublime, nor beautiful, yet well entitled to 

 form a separate class ; and this I have en- 

 deavoured to do, in my Essays on the Pic- 

 aresque. 



