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CHAPTER VI.
AS, notwithflanding the various and
firiking lights in which Mr. Burke
has placed the alliance between fniooth-
nefs and beauty, and in foite of the very
clofe and convincing arguments he has
drawn, by anaiogy, from the other fenfes,
that pobtion has been doubted I hope
it
* A perfon of the moft unqueftioned abilities, and
general accuracy of judgment, but v/ho had not paid
much attention to this fuhject, aflerted that a variety of
objedfs were beautiful, without the leaft flnoothnefs; and
that the pifturefque Vv'as always included either in the
fublime, or the beautiful. I afked him what he would
cali an old rugged mofly oak, with branches twifted
into
CHAPTER VI.
AS, notwithflanding the various and
firiking lights in which Mr. Burke
has placed the alliance between fniooth-
nefs and beauty, and in foite of the very
clofe and convincing arguments he has
drawn, by anaiogy, from the other fenfes,
that pobtion has been doubted I hope
it
* A perfon of the moft unqueftioned abilities, and
general accuracy of judgment, but v/ho had not paid
much attention to this fuhject, aflerted that a variety of
objedfs were beautiful, without the leaft flnoothnefs; and
that the pifturefque Vv'as always included either in the
fublime, or the beautiful. I afked him what he would
cali an old rugged mofly oak, with branches twifted
into