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made of the word terrible, for the purpose of 

 raising our ideas of the objects to which it is 

 applied ; and certainly by persons who never 

 read Aristotle, or Longinus, or even Mr. Burke: 

 who can hear at a horse-race, of the terrible 

 high bred cattle, and not feel how universally 

 the same idea has prevailed. 



P. 105.1.6. The instrument for the purpose of curling 

 and crisping the hair seems to be of very an- 

 cient date; as Virgil, who probably studied the 

 costume of the heroic age, supposes it to have 

 been in use at the time of the Trojan war, and 

 makes Turnus speak contemptuously of iEneas 



( for having his locks perfumed, and, as Madame 



de Sevigne expresses it, f rises naturellement 

 avec le fer, 



Vibratos calido ferro, myrrhaque madentes. 



j The natural roughness or crispness of hair is 



often mentioned as a beauty — l'auree crespe 

 crini— capelli crespe, 8c lunghe, & d'oro. 



\ In many points the hair has a striking rela- 



tion to trees; they resemble each other in 

 their intricacy, their ductility, the quickness 

 of their growth, their seeming to acquire fresh 

 vigour from being cut, and in their being de- 

 tached from the solid bodies whence they 

 spring; they are the varied boundaries, the 

 loose and airy fringes, without which mere 

 earth, or mere flesh, bowever beautifully 



