The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (1.1787)

LECTURE V.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

TN purfuing our remarks on that divifion of
our fubject which now requefts your at-
tention, I flatter myfelf you will receive as
well entertainment as improvement of which
perhaps you will be more fenfible, if you re-
collect the remarks you cannot but have made
on many fimilar articles to thofe we fliall in-
troduce: and I more readily requeft the
recollection of your former fentiments, be-
caufe the peculiar charafter of fome perfons
cannot eafily be miftaken, but it will im-
prefs the mind of every obferver. Did you
never diflike a perfon from his appearance,
without any other reafon ? Did you never
meet the man in whom you imagined you faw
not only a deficiency of manners, but of fenfe
or of morals, in whofe vacancy of countenance
you fancied you traced the figns of a corref-
pondent vacancy of thought and intellect ?
On the other hand, many perfons may at fird

O fight