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

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of majpfty and elevation, which we fuppofe
diftinguifhes them from the crowd. It is true,
a ruftic or a clown may furpafs in natural afpect
a nobleman or a king; (and indeed it is our
felicity that the Author of our nature, in dif-
penfing his favors, pays no regard to the glit-
tering titles which human vanity has invented)
norcan welimit qualitiesof the mind by external
appearances, or trace them univerfaily in the
features of a face; yet as defign cannot repre-
fent the mind, but through the medium of
thofe features, it is not only a pardonable but
a commendable liberty, where it can be done
without trefpaffing on verifimility, to exhibit
fuch features as mo ft immediately exprefs to
the fpeiflator the character intended, be that
character what it may.

Is it a commander at the head of his troops?
we expect a more martial air, and greater gal-
lantry in him, than in the foldiers, who, tho*
valiant, muft yet be fuppofed lefs elevated in
dignity than their leader: if you afk, where-
fore ? I would wifh you to confider a little
intimately the fuppofed diftinction. Courage
is a natural quality, which is equally pofTef-
fible by the foldier as by his general j fo far
they are upon a par: but is it to be fuppofed
the foldier has had the fame advantages of
education I has he purfued the fame ftudies,

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