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sometimes those harmonious combinations 

 of colours and smells, which make grate- 

 ful impressions upon the visual or olfactory 

 nerves. It often happens too, in the laxity 

 of common conversation or desultory writ- 

 ing, that the word is used without any 

 pointed application to either, but with a 

 mere general and indistinct reference to 

 what is any ways pleasing. 



This confusion has been still more con- 

 founded, by its having equally prevailed 

 jn all the terms applied to the constituent 

 properties both of beauty and ugliness. 

 We call a still clear piece of water, sur- 

 rounded by shaven banks, and reflecting 

 white buildings, or other brilliant objects 

 that stand near it, smooth, because we per- 

 ceive its surface to be smooth and even, 

 though the impression, which all these 

 harsh and edgy reflections of light produce 

 on the eye, is analogous to that which 

 roughness produces on the touch ; and is 

 often so violently irritating, that we can- 

 not bear to look at it for any long time 

 together. In the same manner, we call an 



