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Ch. IV. GRANDEUR AND SUBLIMITY. 218
deslitute of regularity, has not the least tindure os
grandeur. A single regiment in battle - array,
makes a grand appearance ; which the surround-
ing crowd does not, though perhaps ten for one in
number. And a regiment where the men are all
in one livery and the horses os one color, makes
a grander appearance , and coniequently strikes
more terror, than where there is consulion of co-
lors and of dress. Thus areatness or magnitude
is the circumstance that distingttishes grandeur
from beauty : agreeableness is the genus, of which
beauty and grandeur are species.
The emotion of grandeur, duly examined, will
be found an additional proof os the foregoing doc-
trine. That this emotion is pleasant in a high de-
gree , requires no other evidence but once to have
leen a grand objed ; and il an emotion of gran-
deur be pleasant , itt, cause or objed, as observed
above , must infallibly be agreeable in proportion.
The qualities os grandeur and beauty are not
more distind, than the emotions are which these
qualities produce in a spedator. It is observed in
the chapter immediately soregoing , that all the va-
rious emotions of beauty have one common charac-
ter, that of sweetness and gaiety. The emotion os
grandeur has a disserent charader : a large objed
that is agreeable , occupies the whole attention ,
and swells the heart into a vivid emotion which,
though extremely pleasant, is rather serious than gay.
And this affords a good reason for distinguissnng in
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deslitute of regularity, has not the least tindure os
grandeur. A single regiment in battle - array,
makes a grand appearance ; which the surround-
ing crowd does not, though perhaps ten for one in
number. And a regiment where the men are all
in one livery and the horses os one color, makes
a grander appearance , and coniequently strikes
more terror, than where there is consulion of co-
lors and of dress. Thus areatness or magnitude
is the circumstance that distingttishes grandeur
from beauty : agreeableness is the genus, of which
beauty and grandeur are species.
The emotion of grandeur, duly examined, will
be found an additional proof os the foregoing doc-
trine. That this emotion is pleasant in a high de-
gree , requires no other evidence but once to have
leen a grand objed ; and il an emotion of gran-
deur be pleasant , itt, cause or objed, as observed
above , must infallibly be agreeable in proportion.
The qualities os grandeur and beauty are not
more distind, than the emotions are which these
qualities produce in a spedator. It is observed in
the chapter immediately soregoing , that all the va-
rious emotions of beauty have one common charac-
ter, that of sweetness and gaiety. The emotion os
grandeur has a disserent charader : a large objed
that is agreeable , occupies the whole attention ,
and swells the heart into a vivid emotion which,
though extremely pleasant, is rather serious than gay.
And this affords a good reason for distinguissnng in
O 3