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Chofen at leaft. Nevertheless when the Idea, or Manner of Thinking in a Picture or Drawing is opposed to the Executive part, 'tis commonly understood of these four first mention'd, As the other 3 are imply'd by its oppofite.

No two Men in the World Think, and Act alike, nor is it poffible they should, Because Men fall into a way of Thinking, and Acting from a Chain of Causes which never Is, nor Can be the Same to different Men. This Difference is notorious, and seen by every one with respect to what is the Object of our Sences, and 'tis as Evident to our Reafon ; as it is that what I have affigned as the Caufe of it is the true one. There are two Inftances that are very familiar,

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and well known, And thofe are Our Voices, and Hand-Writing; People of the fame Age, the fame Constitution, and in several other particulars in the fame Circumstances for ought appears to Common obfervation are yet as cafily distinguished by their Voices, as by any other Meanes: And 'tis wonderful to Confider that in fo few Circumstances as what relates to the tone of the Voice there fhould be (as there is) an Infinite Variety fo as to produce the effect I am fpeaking of. So in the other Cafe; if 100 Boys learn of the fame Mafter, at the fame time, yet fuch will be the difference in Other respects that their Hands fhall be diftinguish'd even while they are at School, and more easily afterwards; and thus it would be if

onably More, or Less apparent. Thus, Some of the Manners of the Painters are as unlike one another as Alcibiades, and Ther fites; Others are lefs remarkably Unlike, as the Generality of Mens faces are; Some again have a Fraternal Refemblance; and there are fome few which have That which is frequently found in Twins where the difference is but just difcernable.

There are fuch Peculiarities in the turn of Thought, and Hand to be seen in Some of the Mafters (in Some of their Works efpecially) that 'tis the easiest thing in the World to know them at first Sight; fuch as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangela Buonarotti, Giulio Romano, Battifta Franco, Parmeggiano, Paola Farinati, Cangiagio, Rubens, Ca ftiglione,

ftiglione, and fome others; And in the Divine Raffaelle one often fees fuch a Tranfcendent Excellence that cannot be found in any other Man, and affures us this must be the Hand of him who was what Shakespear calls Julius Cafar. The foremost Man of all the World.

There are several others, who by imitating other Masters, or being of the fame School, or from whatsoever other Caufe have had fuch a Resemblance in their Manners as not to be fo cat cafily diftinguish'd, Timoteo d' Urbino, & Pellegrino da Modena, imitated Raffaelle; Cafare da Sefto, Leonardo da Vinci; Schidone, Lanfranco, and others imitated Coreggio; Titian's first Manner was a clofe imitation of that of Giorgione; Gio. Battista Bertano

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followed his Mafter Giulio Romano, The Sons of Baffano, aud thofe of Pafferotto imitated their Fathers, Romanino, Andrea Schiavone, and Giovanni Battista Zelotti feverally imitated Titian, Parmeggiano, and Paolo Veronefe. Biaggio Bolognefe imitated fometimes Raffaele, and fometimes Parmeggiano. Rubens was imitated by Abraham Fanfens, and Van-Dyke by Long-John in Hif tory, and Gildenafel in Portraits. Matham followed Giussepino and Ciro Ferri Pietro da Cortona. There is a great Refemblance of the Manner of Michelangelo in fome of the Works of Andrea del Sarto, Greater in the hands of the two Zuccaroes; and Greater yet in Those of Maturino, and Polydore.

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