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Jours upon your pallet: A little practice will eafily bring you to
be expert in this; and, in order to pave the way for you at firft,
I have (hewn how to paint each under its proper article.
FOLIAGE, a clufter or afTemblage of flowers, leaves,
branches, &c. It is particularly ufed for the reprefentations of
fuch flowers, leaves, branches, rinds, &C. whether natural or ar-
tificial, ufed as in inrichments on capitals, frizes, pediments, &c.
FOLIATING 7 koking-glafs plates. The plates, having been
SILVERING ) polifhed, are next to be foliated or filvered,
which is performed after the following manner:
A thin blotting paper is fpread on a table, and fprinkled with
fine chalk; and then a fine lamina or leaf of tin, called foil, is
laid over the paper; upon this mercury is poured, which is to
be equally distributed over the leaf with a hare's foot or cotton:
Over the leaf is laid a clean paper, and over that the glafs plate.
—The glafs plate is preffed down with the right hand, and
the paper is drawn gently out with the left; which being done,
the plate is covered with a thicker paper, and loaded with a greater
Weight, that the fuperfluous mercury may be driven out, and the
tin adhere more clofely to the glafs.—When it is dried, the weight
is removed, and the looking-glafs is complete.—Some add an
ounce of mercury to half an ounce of marcafite, melted by the
fire; and, left the mercury fhould evaporate in fmoke, pour it
into cold water, and when cold fqueele it through a cloth or
leather.—Some alfo add a quarter of an ounce of lead and tin to
the marcafite, that the glafs may dry the fooner.
FOLLY, is reprefented, in painting, by a perfon at man's
efiate, in a long black garment, laughing, riding upon a hobby
horfe, holding in one hand a whirligig of pafteboard, and playing
the fool with children, who make him twirl it by the wind.—>
Folly is only aclins; contrary to the due decorum and common
cuftom of men, delighting in childifh toys and things of little
moment.
FORCE of eloquence, is reprefented, in painting, by a woman
in a decent, grave habit, holding Mercury's rod in her hand,
and a lion under her feet.—This demonftrates, that Force and
ftrength give place to the eloquence of thofe whofe tongues are
Well hung ; for we perceive the unruly mob, though threatening
deftruclion, are prefently appeafed, and lay down their arms,
as foon as they hear a grave eloquent perfon demonftrate the
danger of the riot; their boifterous huzza's are all on a fudden
hufhed into filence, and they tamely fubmit to his cbttates.
Force of juftice, is reprefented, in painting, by a lady in
royal apparel, crowned, about to fit down upon the back of a
lion, and feems to lay her hand upon her fword, which denotes
% 2 juftice,
Jours upon your pallet: A little practice will eafily bring you to
be expert in this; and, in order to pave the way for you at firft,
I have (hewn how to paint each under its proper article.
FOLIAGE, a clufter or afTemblage of flowers, leaves,
branches, &c. It is particularly ufed for the reprefentations of
fuch flowers, leaves, branches, rinds, &C. whether natural or ar-
tificial, ufed as in inrichments on capitals, frizes, pediments, &c.
FOLIATING 7 koking-glafs plates. The plates, having been
SILVERING ) polifhed, are next to be foliated or filvered,
which is performed after the following manner:
A thin blotting paper is fpread on a table, and fprinkled with
fine chalk; and then a fine lamina or leaf of tin, called foil, is
laid over the paper; upon this mercury is poured, which is to
be equally distributed over the leaf with a hare's foot or cotton:
Over the leaf is laid a clean paper, and over that the glafs plate.
—The glafs plate is preffed down with the right hand, and
the paper is drawn gently out with the left; which being done,
the plate is covered with a thicker paper, and loaded with a greater
Weight, that the fuperfluous mercury may be driven out, and the
tin adhere more clofely to the glafs.—When it is dried, the weight
is removed, and the looking-glafs is complete.—Some add an
ounce of mercury to half an ounce of marcafite, melted by the
fire; and, left the mercury fhould evaporate in fmoke, pour it
into cold water, and when cold fqueele it through a cloth or
leather.—Some alfo add a quarter of an ounce of lead and tin to
the marcafite, that the glafs may dry the fooner.
FOLLY, is reprefented, in painting, by a perfon at man's
efiate, in a long black garment, laughing, riding upon a hobby
horfe, holding in one hand a whirligig of pafteboard, and playing
the fool with children, who make him twirl it by the wind.—>
Folly is only aclins; contrary to the due decorum and common
cuftom of men, delighting in childifh toys and things of little
moment.
FORCE of eloquence, is reprefented, in painting, by a woman
in a decent, grave habit, holding Mercury's rod in her hand,
and a lion under her feet.—This demonftrates, that Force and
ftrength give place to the eloquence of thofe whofe tongues are
Well hung ; for we perceive the unruly mob, though threatening
deftruclion, are prefently appeafed, and lay down their arms,
as foon as they hear a grave eloquent perfon demonftrate the
danger of the riot; their boifterous huzza's are all on a fudden
hufhed into filence, and they tamely fubmit to his cbttates.
Force of juftice, is reprefented, in painting, by a lady in
royal apparel, crowned, about to fit down upon the back of a
lion, and feems to lay her hand upon her fword, which denotes
% 2 juftice,