LOOKING-GLASS. 
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. Happy then was the painter or fculptor, who faw 
the beft models of champions and warriors ftripped 
of fuperfluous fineries, and prefenting, in every 
anxious attitude, fubje6fs of le6tures on the human 
confHtution. 
Another opportunity to cultivate the fine arts 
was derived from a variety of laudable diverfions, 
fitted to youth of both fexes, who, in the flate of 
innocence, prefented their natural graces, which 
excited the ftrongeft emotions, without raifing a 
blufh at Lacedaemon. 
If, therefore, fome profeffional gentle'men would 
exclude anatomy from a juft rank in the fcale of 
fciences, it muft be granted, that they might pro- 
cure a compenfation for the deficiency, were it 
in their power to eftablifh fuch popular Affernblies 
or Mufeums as the Grecians had, for experiments 
on the fyftem of Nature, which they muft have 
ftudied with the greateft advantage, as they have 
tranfmitted to us the moft ftriking proofs of their fu- 
perior workmanfhip. Finally, we conclude that 
they could not have attained that degree of emi- 
nence without fome anatomical principles, though 
perhaps differing from our refined fyftems. 
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