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no less plainly mark a distinction than their 

 general effect, if singly considered, would 

 imply a unity of character. The cause of 

 envy, is the merit, reputation, or good for- 

 tune of others; that of revenge, an injury 

 received. These seem to me their most 

 obvious and striking causes, and certainly 

 sufficient to distinguish them from each 

 other: but let the most acute metaphy- 

 sician place in one point of view, whatever 

 may in any way mark the boundaries 

 which separate them ; then let his dis- 

 tinctions be compared with those which 

 I have stated to exist between the beau- 

 tiful and the picturesque, and if they be 

 not more clear, and more strongly marked, 

 why should they have a privilege which is 

 denied to mine? 



It has been argued by some, that the 

 sublime, as well as the picturesque, is in- 

 cluded in the beautiful ; that such distinc- 

 tions as Mr. Burke and myself have made, 

 are too minute, and refined; and that the 

 picturesque especially, is only a mode of 



