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3i2 A TOUR THROUGH
No two nations,—perhaps no two men,
have affixed precisely the same charadter-
istics ; and every one exalts his idea of it,
according to the beauty of the women he is
accustomed to see; so that even the same
person may sometimes appear beautiful,
sometimes ugly, just in proportion as we
have seen others that are more or less so.—■
I remember, after making the tour of Savoy
and the Lower Valais, every woman we
met in Switzerland appeared an angel. The
same thing happens in travelling through
some parts of Germany ; and you will
easily recollect the surprising disference be-
twixt a beauty at Milan and one at Turin,
although these places lie adjacent to each
other. It is a pity that the Juno of Zeuxis
has been lost, if it were no more than to
have shewn us the notion the ancients had
of a perfect beauty. Indeed, the Venus of
Medicis has been considered as a model of
perfection,—but it is surely absurd j—for
who
No two nations,—perhaps no two men,
have affixed precisely the same charadter-
istics ; and every one exalts his idea of it,
according to the beauty of the women he is
accustomed to see; so that even the same
person may sometimes appear beautiful,
sometimes ugly, just in proportion as we
have seen others that are more or less so.—■
I remember, after making the tour of Savoy
and the Lower Valais, every woman we
met in Switzerland appeared an angel. The
same thing happens in travelling through
some parts of Germany ; and you will
easily recollect the surprising disference be-
twixt a beauty at Milan and one at Turin,
although these places lie adjacent to each
other. It is a pity that the Juno of Zeuxis
has been lost, if it were no more than to
have shewn us the notion the ancients had
of a perfect beauty. Indeed, the Venus of
Medicis has been considered as a model of
perfection,—but it is surely absurd j—for
who