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ness, the other on roughness; the one on 

 gradual, the other on sudden variation; 

 the one on ideas of youth and freshness, 

 the other on those of age, and even of 

 decay. 



But as most of the qualities of visible 

 beauty are made known to us through the 

 medium of another sense, the sight itself 

 is hardly more to be considered than the 

 touch, in regard to all those sensations 

 which are excited by beautiful forms; and 

 the distinction between the beautiful and 

 the picturesque, will, perhaps, be most 

 strongly pointed out by means of the lat- 

 ter sense. I am aware that this is liable 

 to a gross and obvious ridicule; but for 

 that reason, none but gross and common- 

 place minds will dwell upon it. 



Mr. Burke has observed, that "men 

 are carried to the sex in general, as, it is 

 the sex, and by the common law of nature; 

 but they are attached to particulars by 

 personal beauty ; he adds, " I call beauty 

 a social quality; for where women and 



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