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Her age denotes that time and labour are continually deftroy*.
ing us ; and {he therefore holds an hour-glafs, which requires
diligence in turning, and often moving it, left it ftop.
ASSISTANCE, is reprefented in painting, Sec. by a man in
years, clad in white, and over all a purple mantle ; a ray mining
round him, crowned with a garland of olive ; a chain about
his neck, and a heart for a pendant; his right arm is extended,
and his hand open ; in his left hand he holds a ftake, furrounded
with a vine, and at his right is a ftork.—His age intimates his
difcretion, not being intent upon avarice, in giving his helping
hand.—The white raiment indicates his fincerity, without felf-
intereft. The fplendid ray denotes divine afliftance, without
which, as the wife without the hufband, it is like the vine
without the ftake ; the (fork, the natural affection of parents.
ART, is reprefented, in painting, by an agreeable woman,
who feems to be ingenious by her very looks; fhe is habited in
a gown of green, holding in her right hand a hammer, -an en-
graving tool, and a pencil, and in her left hand a ftake, that
fupports a vine.—The agreeablenefs of her countenance de-
clares the charming nature of Arts, attracting all eyes to it,
and gaining the author's approbation and commendation ; the
three inftruments are for imitating nature; the ftake fupplies
nature's defects, in holding up the tender plant,
ARTIFICE, in painting, &c. is reprefented as a comely
man, in a richly embroidered garment, laying his hand upon
a fcrew of perpetual motion, and by his right he fhevvs a hive
of bees.—He is nobly cloathed, becaufe Art is noble of itfelf;
his hand upon the fcrew fhews, that engines have been con-
trived by induftry, and by thofe incredible things, like the per-
petual motion, have been performed.—The hive intimates the
induftry of bees, which, being inconfiderable, are neverthelefs
great as to their conduct,
ASTONISHMENT, proceeds from an excefs of admira-
tion, which furprife is fometimes fo ftrong, as to drive the fpi-
rits towards the place from whence the impreflion of the object
is received ; and being fo much employed in confidering this
impreffion, that there remain no fpirits to pafs through the
mufcles ; the body becomes immoveable as a ftatue.
How this paffion is reprefented in drawing and painting, fee
the figures of admiration and Aftoniihment in plate II.
ASTRONOMY, is painted with a filver crefcent on her
forehead, an azure mantle, a watchet fcarf, befprinkled with
golden ftars.
It is alfo reprefented as a lady in a ftarry habit, her eyes look-
ing towards heaven ; holding in her right hand an aftrolabe, and
in her left a table of aftronomical figures.
Her
AST
Her age denotes that time and labour are continually deftroy*.
ing us ; and {he therefore holds an hour-glafs, which requires
diligence in turning, and often moving it, left it ftop.
ASSISTANCE, is reprefented in painting, Sec. by a man in
years, clad in white, and over all a purple mantle ; a ray mining
round him, crowned with a garland of olive ; a chain about
his neck, and a heart for a pendant; his right arm is extended,
and his hand open ; in his left hand he holds a ftake, furrounded
with a vine, and at his right is a ftork.—His age intimates his
difcretion, not being intent upon avarice, in giving his helping
hand.—The white raiment indicates his fincerity, without felf-
intereft. The fplendid ray denotes divine afliftance, without
which, as the wife without the hufband, it is like the vine
without the ftake ; the (fork, the natural affection of parents.
ART, is reprefented, in painting, by an agreeable woman,
who feems to be ingenious by her very looks; fhe is habited in
a gown of green, holding in her right hand a hammer, -an en-
graving tool, and a pencil, and in her left hand a ftake, that
fupports a vine.—The agreeablenefs of her countenance de-
clares the charming nature of Arts, attracting all eyes to it,
and gaining the author's approbation and commendation ; the
three inftruments are for imitating nature; the ftake fupplies
nature's defects, in holding up the tender plant,
ARTIFICE, in painting, &c. is reprefented as a comely
man, in a richly embroidered garment, laying his hand upon
a fcrew of perpetual motion, and by his right he fhevvs a hive
of bees.—He is nobly cloathed, becaufe Art is noble of itfelf;
his hand upon the fcrew fhews, that engines have been con-
trived by induftry, and by thofe incredible things, like the per-
petual motion, have been performed.—The hive intimates the
induftry of bees, which, being inconfiderable, are neverthelefs
great as to their conduct,
ASTONISHMENT, proceeds from an excefs of admira-
tion, which furprife is fometimes fo ftrong, as to drive the fpi-
rits towards the place from whence the impreflion of the object
is received ; and being fo much employed in confidering this
impreffion, that there remain no fpirits to pafs through the
mufcles ; the body becomes immoveable as a ftatue.
How this paffion is reprefented in drawing and painting, fee
the figures of admiration and Aftoniihment in plate II.
ASTRONOMY, is painted with a filver crefcent on her
forehead, an azure mantle, a watchet fcarf, befprinkled with
golden ftars.
It is alfo reprefented as a lady in a ftarry habit, her eyes look-
ing towards heaven ; holding in her right hand an aftrolabe, and
in her left a table of aftronomical figures.
Her