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LECTURE VIII.
PROPORTIONS OF THE FIGURE, AND OF
BEAUTY OF PARTS.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
When we look around among; the almost innu-
merable inhabitants of this lower Creation, we are
surprized, and delighted, with the variety of powers
bestowed among them, and with the happy skill by
which those powers are adapted to the various situa-
tions and circumstances of each class, and of every
individual. Our great Author has given to some
creatures, life, breath, motion, agility, swiftness ;
to others he has imparted what appears to us as bare
existence only. Some remain pendant to their native
rocks, or buried in profound obscurity, abide in their
submarine recesses: Others,
" Sailing with supreme dominion,
Through the azure deep of air"-•
soar beyond our aching sight. Some, bound over
the hills, and dart along the plains; others, crawl
their inch a-day, and in piteous moans seem to be-
wail
LECTURE VIII.
PROPORTIONS OF THE FIGURE, AND OF
BEAUTY OF PARTS.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
When we look around among; the almost innu-
merable inhabitants of this lower Creation, we are
surprized, and delighted, with the variety of powers
bestowed among them, and with the happy skill by
which those powers are adapted to the various situa-
tions and circumstances of each class, and of every
individual. Our great Author has given to some
creatures, life, breath, motion, agility, swiftness ;
to others he has imparted what appears to us as bare
existence only. Some remain pendant to their native
rocks, or buried in profound obscurity, abide in their
submarine recesses: Others,
" Sailing with supreme dominion,
Through the azure deep of air"-•
soar beyond our aching sight. Some, bound over
the hills, and dart along the plains; others, crawl
their inch a-day, and in piteous moans seem to be-
wail