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mi other sense: I am sure, at least, the im* 

 pression would have been so powerful, that 

 you would scarcely have felt any " mild 

 " pleasure of vision from the blended va-^ 

 " riety of mellow and harmonious tints," 

 " scarcely have been able to " view them 

 " with abstract and impartial attention," 

 though they would have been " separated 

 " in the painters imitation/' 



" And now, I think, you must have had 

 nearly enough of this discussion; and very 

 probably may imagine, from all you have 

 seen and heard of the Dutch masters* that 

 they never painted any but low, and those 

 often filthy subjects. It is true, that they 

 seldom attempted the higher style of the 

 art; yet still, they did not always confine 

 themselves to the lowest: and I should like 

 to shew you a picture of Wovermans which, 

 used to hang at yonder corner next to the 

 saloon. I do not mean that the subject of 

 this, or of any of his other pictures, is at all 

 elevated, except as compared with the other 

 painters of his school : they j generally 

 painted boors and peasants ; but Wover- 



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