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beauty; for as it was remarked by a writer 

 of the highest eminence, venustas $ puU 

 chritudo corporis, sccerni non potest a 

 valetudine*. Besides the relation, which 

 in point of freshness in the general ap- 

 pearance, a beautiful plant or a beautiful 

 person bear to each other, there is likewise 

 a correspondence in particular parts: the 

 luxuriancy of foliage, answers to that of 

 hair; the delicate smoothness of bark, to 

 that of the skin; and the clear, even, and 

 tender Colour of it, to that of the complex- 

 ion: there is also, in the bark and the skin, 

 though much more sensibly in. the latter, 

 another beauty arising from a look of soft- 

 ness and suppleness, so opposite to the hard 

 and dry appearance, which, as well as rough- 

 ness, is brought on by age; and which pecu- 

 liar softness (arising in this case from the 

 free circulation of juices to every part, and 

 in contra-distinction to what is dry, though 

 yielding to pressure) is well expressed by 

 the Greek word *tff&\ a word whose 



. > * Cicero M Ottjqiis, XAb. 1. 



