the beautiful in objects of sight, and the 

 two terms are in the strictest sense syno- 

 nymous or convertible, as they mean pre- 

 cisely the same thing m all that regards 

 the sense of seeing, 



I trust that I shall not be suspected of 

 having knowingly on any occasion misin* 

 terpreted an antagonist's meaning : but 

 supposing that on this I had been mistaken, 

 or that in any part of the Dialogue I had 

 unstated Mr. Knight's meaning, the ut- 

 most, in my opinion, that he ought to have 

 done, was simply to set me right ; without 

 any thing however that tended to reproof. 

 Before the Dialogue was printed, I gave 

 him the manuscript, and begged him to 

 mark any thing that he thought unfair or 

 uncandid : he returned it without any 

 remark of that kind ; and though it be 

 true that he might not have examined it 

 with sufficient attention, or that things 

 which did not then occur to him, may ar~ 

 terwards have struck him in the printed 

 copy, still, having had the manuscript, h& 



