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" I am so thoroughly convinced, that 

 there is one myself/' said Mr. Hamilton, 

 " and the whole appears to me so clear, 

 that I can scarcely believe him to be quite 

 in earnest. No one has a more quick, and 

 accurate. perception of distinctions than our 

 friend; and I once hoped he would have 

 employed his talents in throwing new lights 

 on this distinction : but, unfortunately, he 

 has exercised all his ingenuity in trying to 

 prove, that youth and age, freshness and 

 decay, what is rough, broken, and rudely 

 irregular, and what has that symmetry, 

 continuity of parts, and last finishing po- 

 lish, which the artist (whether divine or 

 human) manifestly intended, are all to be 

 considered as belonging to one general class. 

 Therefore for instance, not only this build- 

 ing, in its present state, or in ruins, but this 

 building, and the inside of a broken hovel r 

 would be indifferently cither beautiful or 

 picturesque; and either of these terms, 

 would not only suit a Paris or a Belisarius, 

 but a Paris and a common old beggar/' 



