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surface of the eye, and above all the hair, 

 by its comparative roughness and its par- 

 tial concealments, accompany and relieve 

 the softness, clearness, and smoothness of 

 all the rest: where the hair has no na- 

 tural roughness, it is often artificially 

 curled and crisped, and it cannot be sup- 

 posed that both sexes have been so often 

 mistaken in what would best become them. 

 As the general surface of a beautiful face 

 is soft and smooth, its general form con- 

 sists of lines that insensibly melt into each 

 other; yet if we may judge from those re- 

 mains of ancient arts, which are considered 

 as models of beauty, the Grecian sculptors 

 were of opinion that a line nearly strait 

 of the nose and forehead was required, to 

 give a zest to all the other waving lines 

 of the face. 



Flowers are the most delicate and beau- 

 tiful of all inanimate objects; but their 

 queen the rose, grows on a rough thorny 

 bush with jagged leaves. The moss rose 

 has the addition of a rough hairy fringe, 

 which almost makes a part of the flower 

 itself. The arbutus, with its fruit, its pen- 



