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back and belly, with every line that retraces, in all 
points of view, Herculean ftrength, inajeftic grace, 
and delicate comelinefs, mingled jn a manner that 
infpires the admirer of it with a high opinion of 
Art and Nature at once difplayed. 
It is here that the fculptor will fee the mar- 
vellous effect of mufcles, tendons, &c. in their 
elaftic tone, together with the beautiful outlines 
that the whole has received from the Creator’s hand. 
Through the leading features of fuch a dump of 
man, an intelligent pupil will fee the violent agita- 
tions of the heart, lungs, and midriff, or obferve 
the effect of more refined and calmer feelings.—* 
What a field is open for talents to reprefent, in a 
true light, every interelting fituation, with fuch 
myfteries as furpafs the general conception of man- 
kind, and bid defiance to the refearches of vulgar 
eyes ! On this occafion, it becomes us to contra- 
di6f an opinion which has too long prevailed, — 
that the face alone contains expreffive ftriking 
features j for, in the cftimation of a Phyfiognomift, 
all parts of the body are damped with fuch marks 
he eejoyed the pleafure of admiring it in the Clementine^ Mu- 
feum. 
The famous Laocoon, brought to France, will lUcewife ferve as a 
text upon which modern furgeons may write volumes of coramen- 
taries. 
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