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1 HE various and striking lights in which 

 Mr. Burke has placed the alliance between 

 smoothness and beauty in objects of sight, 

 and the very close and convincing argu- 

 ments he has drawn by analogy from the 

 other senses, I should have supposed would 

 have left but little doubt on the subject. 

 As I find, however, that the position has 

 been questioned by persons to whose opi- 

 nions much respect is due, I shall venture* 

 notwithstanding the copious and masterly 

 manner ii» which the subject has been 

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