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lavater’s 
It was probably the difficulty of afcertalning thefe 
various agitations, that induced Watelet to adopt 
another method, in the judicious obfervations fol- 
lowing his Poem on the Art of Painting. 
He divides the Paffions into fix different branches, 
of which each has feveral diftinguifliing tliades. For 
inftance. Melancholy is the confequence either of 
misfortunes or of c&ffipaffion ; but it has various 
gradations by which it is particularly marked and 
pointed out to difcerning eyes. Every (hade of 
difference bears fomething peculiar to it, fuch as — 
Anxiety, unealinefs, regret ; 
V exation, peevifhnefs, languor ; 
Dejedtion, reflgnation, oppreffion, &c. 
Joy, the fecond principal paffion, has feveral 
degrees : — 
Satisfadion, fmiles, and laughter, occafioned by mirth ; 
With demonflrations in geftures, tinging, and dancing; 
Convulfive fits of laughing ; 
High glee, tears, embraces ; 
Mad pranks and raptures, refembling the ftate of intoxica- 
tion. 
Grief, produced by bodily pain, has alfo its pro- 
portioned variations, according to the degree of 
Senfibility, pricking, griping ; 
Torments, pangs of death, and detpair. 
Sloth, 
