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A lift, already procured, of four hundred differ- 
ing human heads might be gradually increafed by 
fnch 
ferent manner. A venerable elder of the land, after having lived 
in affluence, is brought down, by an adl of arbitrary government, 
with his gray hairs in forrow to the grave ! We may obferve hiei 
wearing apace 
Half bent wirh worldly cares he moves along ; 
His brows are overcaft, his vifige low’rs. 
While heavily in tears his eyes look down 
To fhun the flightful pity of a friend, 
Who us’d to fliare his hofpitable houfe, 
But feels no reverence for age opprefs’d 
By war, the fcourge of nations, and his bane * 
Nay, all Lavater fees at once denotes 
A fpeedy diffolution with the caufe, 
The plague incurable- A broken heart! 
But under flmilar circumftances the companion of his youth is feen 
to weather the fame florin with a fetene coi^ntjenance, looking up to 
Heaven, enjoying life as it pafles, with ffllrits becoming a rational 
creature. 
Whence, then, arifes fuch a difference in^ellng and difcovering 
their fecret emotions, If we imagine them both well born and bred in 
\Vales, endowed with equal qualities of the licad and heart, and 
vliflims to pride, deceit, or ingratitude? A comparifon of their 
figures will folve this qucflion. We fliall find them pofl'dfing a de- 
gree of conflitutlonal flrength, a frame of body, a nervous fyflem, 
with a fet of features and complexion correfponding with the greater 
and lefler vigour of mind difplayed on thofe occafions, under the vicif- 
fitudes of fortune ; or the primitive, permanent, and Phyfiographical 
ftamp on each of them will be found to tally with the rtfpedlive de- 
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