LOOKING-GLASS. 
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perfe6tion in taking off men and animals as they 
really are, in the various attitudes required; to mark 
the common effort of all the limbs and parts, tend-- 
ing to one united motion of the whole creature, 
an€ proceeding from an over-ruling will, pulhing 
on, in perfect concert, every particle that contri- 
butes to perfe6l his views. 
The very intention, as well as the aft of moving, 
fhould alfo be afcertained and delineated by a good 
painter, who knows that all thefe circumftances 
cannot be properly reprefented without an adequate 
knowledge of the bony and mufcular fyffems. 
In fliort, how many objeffs would never have 
been copied upon canvafs, brafs, or marble, had not 
the diffector paved the way through that labyrinth 
which forms the ground-work of the whole animal 
creation ? Without fuch light, an artift would re- 
femble a man blind-folded, with his genius blunted, 
and brilliant ideas ffifled before their birth ; for. 
What glorious works are feen in every page 
Of Nature’s volume, teaching youth and age, 
Clear as the fun, refulgent light of day, 
That darts at mortal eyes his facred ray. 
Let, then, the ftudy of mankind be freed : 
To ftrike the llfelefs bofom, think, and read 
The records of creation, with the ftore 
Of beings, quick or dead, in days of yore ; 
For, tracing out the ways of Providence, 
Knowledge will yield fair Virtue’s recompenfe. 
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