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It would be fuperfluous to dwell on the advan- 
tages to be derived from the ftudy of fuch inva- 
luable mailer-pieces as are known to every eminent 
artift that has feen a little of the world. Let it 
fuffice to add, what an ingenious ftudent will feel 
as he proceeds, that there is no walk in life wherein 
a penetrating eye may not fee through the malk 
that education or hypocrify throws over a counte- 
nance and character, when both are duly compared, 
with a diftin 61 ion betwixt the original face and 
acquired appearance : thus he may learn to judge 
how much outward figns correfpond with fecret 
inclinations. At firft fight, he will know fuch a 
man as is degraded by imprudence or excelTes, not 
only in his own eftimation, but in the opinion of 
his neighbours, whofe eyes he conllantly avoids. 
were the fafeft rampart that the ChiUs could throw around his well- 
earned fortune. He is now no more, having died at Harwich, ©n 
landing with a part of the treafures brought from the Roman Mu- 
feums. While he lived, — as the needle points to the North, fo 
did his Britiflr heart point towards his native home, after an abfence 
frorti it of half a century. A furviving friend and correfpondent pays 
this tribute due to his memory with the tear of fenfibility. 
Poor Jacob More’s departed fpirlt has a claim to equal homage 
from the fame friendly pen, although his genius was of a different 
caft. His Ryle of painting was generally confined to ruins, land- 
fcapes, and the grandeft feenes : his Eruptions of Vefuvius, drawn 
on the fpot, will have a place in the beft cabinets of Europe, fo long 
as burning mountains flrall leave a trace behind. 
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