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drefs, they are always to be let alone, if a figure 

 be at any diftance, for we know that the but- 

 tons on a man's coat, or a lady's trinkets, are 

 invifible at a little diftance. 



In fpeaking of colours, I fhall not perplex 

 the reader, as the common books on the fubje6t 

 of drawing, &c. have done ; which tell you 

 what to mix together for a fhip, trees, the earth, 

 a brick houfe, lion, fox, &c. for thefe particu- 

 lars are trifling and fuperfluous. The way to 

 colour well is, when we are provided with all 

 neceflary colours, to confult the natural colours 

 of the objeds we would reprefent -, then by caft- 

 ing the eye over the colours we have ready pre- 

 pared, it is very likely we may find fomething 

 that in many cafes will ferve our turn, pure and 

 unmixed \ but if we cannot, let us confider the 

 colours in a compound fenfe. We have an 

 objed, for example, which is purple ; amongft: 

 our colours we do not find that, but by mixing 

 red and blue it is produced. Blue and yellow 

 produce green. Red and yellow make an orange- 

 colour. Red, blue and yellow, make browns 

 and cloth colours of all kinds, by varying the 



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