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lect. v.] OF THE human figure.
90
LECTURE V-
F THE HUMAN FIGURE ; THE DIVISIONS
OF THE FIGURE ; AND THE PROPOR-
TIONS OF THE HEAD.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
" Every thing," says Solomon, "is beautiful
in its season :" and we adopt his opinion : time and
place, a happy union of circumstances, renders many
things highly pleasing, which, under less favourable
appearances, would scarce receive our notice : your
present attention, however, is not engaged on sub-
jects interesting by accident, but on those which are
universally acknowledged to be highly interesting in
their very nature and principles.
Our Earth abounds with variety of beauty, but
nothing is so striking to mankind as the beauty of
the human form; and, while that predilection for
ourselves, which we lately mentioned, continues, it
ever will be so. This has been the subject of pa
negyric in all ages, and by all writers; our inimi-
table Shakespeare, equally excellent on this occa-
sion, as on all others, thus exclaims: " What a
piece of work is man ! how noble in reason ! how
infinite
90
LECTURE V-
F THE HUMAN FIGURE ; THE DIVISIONS
OF THE FIGURE ; AND THE PROPOR-
TIONS OF THE HEAD.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
" Every thing," says Solomon, "is beautiful
in its season :" and we adopt his opinion : time and
place, a happy union of circumstances, renders many
things highly pleasing, which, under less favourable
appearances, would scarce receive our notice : your
present attention, however, is not engaged on sub-
jects interesting by accident, but on those which are
universally acknowledged to be highly interesting in
their very nature and principles.
Our Earth abounds with variety of beauty, but
nothing is so striking to mankind as the beauty of
the human form; and, while that predilection for
ourselves, which we lately mentioned, continues, it
ever will be so. This has been the subject of pa
negyric in all ages, and by all writers; our inimi-
table Shakespeare, equally excellent on this occa-
sion, as on all others, thus exclaims: " What a
piece of work is man ! how noble in reason ! how
infinite