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as in all other objects. An artist wl}o is. 

 well acquainted with the qualities of which 

 those characters are compounded, with their 

 general effect, and with the tendency of 

 those qualities if carried to excess, will knoAV 

 when to keep each character separate, when, 

 and in what degree, to mix them, according 

 to the effect he means to produce. 



The causes and effects of the sublime and 

 of the beautiful have been investigated by 

 a great master, whose footsteps I have fol- 

 lowed in a road, which his penetrating and 

 comprehensive genius had so nobly opened : 

 I have ventured indeed to explore a new 

 track, and to discriminate the causes and 

 the effects of the picturesque from those of 

 the two other characters , : still, however, I 

 have in some degree proceeded , under his 

 auspices ; for it is a track I never should 

 have discovered, had not he first cleared and 

 adorned the principal avenues. 



With respect to the sublime in buildings, 

 Mr. Burke, without entering into a minute 

 detail, has pointed out its most efficient 

 causes two of which are succession, and 



