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LECTURE III.
ON GENIUS, AND BEAUTY.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have laid it clown as a principle, that Nature,
who does nothing in vain, has imparted to some per-
sons peculiar talents and dispositions in favour of the
Arts; while at the same time we affirmed, that the
natural abilities which are usually possessed by indi-
viduals are capable of great improvement in this re-
spect, under proper cultivation. We have offered
some observations, whose influence might tend to
excite in the bosoms of our auditory, desires of
such cultivation ; and our wish is, that such desires
may be brought into activity, and eventually be gra-
tified. That indeed is the main object we have in
view j and these remarks are but introductory to
those principles of Art, which may justly be deemed
practical.
Nevertheless, as the faculties, or qualities, of the
human mind, are at all times important and pleasing
subjects of inquiry, before we proceed to the prac-
tice
history of ab.t,
5*
LECTURE III.
ON GENIUS, AND BEAUTY.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have laid it clown as a principle, that Nature,
who does nothing in vain, has imparted to some per-
sons peculiar talents and dispositions in favour of the
Arts; while at the same time we affirmed, that the
natural abilities which are usually possessed by indi-
viduals are capable of great improvement in this re-
spect, under proper cultivation. We have offered
some observations, whose influence might tend to
excite in the bosoms of our auditory, desires of
such cultivation ; and our wish is, that such desires
may be brought into activity, and eventually be gra-
tified. That indeed is the main object we have in
view j and these remarks are but introductory to
those principles of Art, which may justly be deemed
practical.
Nevertheless, as the faculties, or qualities, of the
human mind, are at all times important and pleasing
subjects of inquiry, before we proceed to the prac-
tice