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formed, however engagingly «oloured, is bald 

 and imperfect, and wants its most becoming 

 ornament. 



In catholic countries, where the nuns, those 

 unfortunate victims of avarice and supersti- 

 tion, are supposed to renounce all idea of 

 pleasing our sex, the first ceremony is that of 

 cutting off their hair, as a sacrifice of the most 

 seducing ornament of beauty ; and the formal 

 edge of the fillet, which prevents a single hair y 

 from escaping, is well contrived to deaden the 

 effect of features. 



P. 106. 1.10. The epithets horridus and horrcns, are 

 frequently applied to sharp pointed and jagged 

 objects in an upright position ; as, horridior 

 rusco f horrentibus hastis, cautibus horrens, &c. 

 and indeed, according to Stevens, an erect 

 position of objects, is the strict and proper 

 meaning of the verb from which they are de- 

 rived ; horreo, proprie cum pili setaque in 

 animante eriguntur ; capilli horrent ; as we 

 say, stand an end. But the appearance of the 

 arbutus is so remarkably pleasing, that an epi 

 thet of which almost all the associations are 

 unpleasing, seems at first sight very oddly 

 applied to it. Different interpretations have 

 been proposed. Marty n thinks the arbutus 

 is called horrida, from the roughness of its 

 bark ; in which the learned Heyne agrees with 

 him: this interpretation may very fairly be 

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