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ON THE

BEAUTIES, HARMONIES, AND SUBLIMITIES

OF

NATURE.

BEAUTIES,

HARMONIES, AND SUBLIMITIES

OF

NATURE:

WITH

OCCASIONAL REMARKS

ON THE

LAWS, CUSTOMS, MANNERS, AND OPINIONS

OF

VARIOUS NATIONS.

SECOND EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA LANE.

Dec. 14, 1931

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

The Library of the Schools

of Landscape Architecture and City Planning

gift of B. Pray

from Collection J.S. Pray

7071

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WEED AND RIDER, LITTLE BRITAIN.

THE

BEAUTIES, HARMONIES, AND SUBLIMITIES

OF

NATURE.

BOOK IV.

CHAPTER I.

As Nature has appropriated different vegetables to the various appetites of animals, so has she given to the mind of every one a relative and distinguishing bias. Some are attuned to the soft vibrations of music; others melt before a painting or a statue; to some she gives the powers of oratory; to others the inspiration of poetry. Some, with a bolder impulse, touch, as it were, the stars with their fingers; while others, at an humbler distance, investigate the instinct of a worm, or calculate the course of an emmet. Some, captivated with the lust of power, standing on the summit of Caucasus, in sight of a hundred nations, become alternately, the idol of the vulgar, and an object of pity to the philosopher and enthusiast,

VOL. II.

B

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