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lavater’s 
from each of them, and mingled all their charms to 
form the fair paramour of Paris. 
In like manner Phidias, the fculptor, united in 
Jupiter’s ftatue the various perfections of a thoufand 
living models. — It was in the fame way that the 
moft ingenious men of "Ancient Greece tranfmitted 
to pofterity a criterion, by which we have learnt to 
value Nature’s glorious works. Confequently Gre- 
cian ftatues, being mere copies of human figures, 
are confidered as difplaying an original type of per- 
fection, far exceeding what is ever found in a fingle 
living individual. Hence came the rules of beauty 
adopted by painters, and too numerous to require a 
particular difcuffion in this Itage of our inquiries. 
The Variations are according to age, fex, and 
country. At the critical period when Nature com- 
municates the fpark of life, her fyftem is invifible. 
In vain would the curious eye attempt to penetrate 
her wifdom in the firfi: ftage ; nor is it poffible for a 
painter to penetrate the great work in embryo. Let 
us, therefore, pafs it over in refpectful filence until 
the time of maturity, when it prefents a fubject to 
be confidered in three points of view. 
Infancy extends from a child’s birth till it is 
twelve years old. The middle term is when his 
figure begins to appear in fuch a ftate of innocence 
as commands the ’’iiijjner’s attention. In the firft, 
fecond, or third year of exiftence, the feeble frame 
is not fo completely formed as to be called perfect. 
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