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©uo-ht on this occasion to have been con*, 

 tented with defending himself, without 

 turning me into an inquisitor. Should it 

 be asked whether I continued this practice 

 of shewing him what related to himself 

 before it was published, and whether lie 

 saw in manuscript, what the reader has 

 just seen, my answer must be 



belli commercia Ttirnus 

 Sustulit ilia prior; 



the first work of his that appeared after 

 the Dialogue came out, was the Analy- 

 tical Inquiry, and I saw nothing of it till 

 after it was published. 



1 must beg leave to remind the reader, 

 that what is said in the Dialogue, can only- 

 have a reference to the opinions contained 

 in the note which gave rise to it ; not to 

 those which were published long afterwards 

 in the Analytical Inquiry. In that work 

 Mr. Knight, if I may venture to say so, 

 appears somewhat inclined to make the same 

 sort of distinction between the beautiful 

 and the picturesque which I have made, 



