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doctrines about nature ; they held, that the 

 productions of nature., and their accessa- 

 ries, were all x«*« ; that is, beautiful in the 

 general sense, on account of their fitness, 

 though they might not be «J«»J»a, that is, 

 beautiful to the eye ; and you must recol- 

 lect, that they thought much less highly of 

 the pleasures of vision than we do, and held 

 them indeed below the concern of a philo- 

 sophic mind. If you were to read the 

 whole treatise, you would find, that every 

 thing refers to those doctrines ; but, I dare 

 say, you discover very clearty in this pas- 

 sage, the first dawn of the distinction }'ou 

 are so fond of ; and consider Antoninus to 

 have been as truly the herald of the pic- 

 turesque, as Bacon was of the true philo- 

 sophy/' 



" I may, perhaps, have indulged some 

 fancies of that kind," replied Mr. Hamil- 

 ton : " indeed, the passage was pointed out 

 to me by our excellent friend Winterton, 

 for, as you very well *now, I am no great 

 Grecian, and the bock itself is out of my 

 course of reading. He thought the passage 

 curious, and that it contained an allusion. 



