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always admired and copied beauty of every 

 kind, (and strange it would be were it 

 otherwise) in animals, as well as in the human 

 species, that they neither reject smooth- 

 ness nor symmetry, but only the ill-judged 

 and tiresome display of them ; that with re- 

 gard to regular and perfect architecture, it 

 made a principal ornament in pictures of 

 the highest class, but that while its smooth- 

 ness, symmetry, and regularity were pre- 

 served, its formality was avoided ; in short, 

 that the study of painting, far from abridg- 

 ing his pleasures, would open a variety of 

 new sources of amusement, and without 

 cutting off any of those which he already 

 possessed, would only direct them into bet- 

 ter channels — he might be disposed to 

 consult an art, which promised many fresh 

 and untasted delights, without forcing him 

 to abandon all those which he had enjoyed 

 before. 



