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those principles. I have compared both 

 its causes and effects, with those of the 

 sublime and the beautiful ; I have shewn 

 its distinctness from them both, and in what 

 that distinctness consists. 



I may perhaps, however, be able to throw 

 some additional light on the subject, by 

 considering two qualities the most opposite 

 to beauty-— those of ugliness and deformity ; 

 by shewing in what points they differ from 

 each other, and under what circumstances 

 they may form a union with other qualities 

 and characters. According to Mr. Burke, 

 those objects are the ugliest, which ap* 

 proach most nearly to angular*; but I 

 think he would scarcely have given that 

 opinion, if he had thought it worth while 

 to investigate so ungrateful a subject as 

 that of ugliness, with the same attention as 

 that of beauty : for if his position be true, 

 the leaves of the plane-tree and the vine, are 

 amoiiff the uojiest of the vegetable king;dom. 



It seems to me, that mere unmixed ug- 



* Sublime and Beautiful, page 217. 



