LOOKING-GLASS. 
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fituatron ; at tHe fame time that, feparately confi- 
dered, it is perfect in every refpe£l proportioned to 
the reft, diftinguithed by legible figns, and animat- 
ed by the blood that circulates from the head and 
heart. 
Among a million of hands, which might be com- 
pared, not one would match another, taken for a 
model ; nay, were it poffible to fit a new finger 
upon a fill that wanted it, however art might 
imitate nature, the work would be imperfect, and 
the difference of execution would ftrike every eye 
familiarized with their produffions ; for, with the 
higheft invention, a man could only fpy or borrow 
beauties from objefis that he fees with a glance, 
without being able to conceive the grand fcale and 
wonderful mould in which they are formed. 
Thus the hand makes a folemn appeal to our 
feelings and judgment, with fo much the more 
candour, as it a£fs fairly and above board, being 
unable to conceal its leaft motion, even when it is 
diretled by the greateft villain, or the moft cunning 
hypocrite. 
Above twenty joints contribute to thofe move- 
pients which exprefs the varied fenfations of the 
mind, together with bodily pleafure or pain, ac- 
cording as it is ufed, either as a neccflary appen- 
dage, or an ornament to the language of the bar, 
the pulpit, and the ffage. Nor need we attempt to 
defcribe it better than in Montaigne’s following 
. n words: 
