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ANALYSIS of BEAUTY. 
for me to proceed very flowly in what I have to fay in 
this chapter, and to beg the reader's patience whilft 
I lead him ftep by ftep into the knowledge of what I 
think the fublime in form, fo remarkably difplay'd in 
the human body; in which, I believe, when he is once 
acquainted with the idea of them, he will find this fpe- 
cies of lines to be principally concern'd. 
Firft, then, let him confider fig. t, which reprefents a t Fig 56. 
firaight horn, with its contents, and he will find, as it 
varies like the cone, it is a form of fome beauty, merely 
on that account. 
Next let him   obferve in what manner, and in what 
degree the beauty of this horn4is increas'd, in fig.       Fig 57- 
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where it is fuppofed to be bent two different ways. 
And laftly, let him attend to the vaft increafe of 
beauty, even to grace and elegance, in the fame horn, 
fig. +, where it is fuppofed to have been twifted round, I Fig. 8. 
at the fame time, that it was bent two different ways, 
(as in the laft figure.) 
In the firft of thefe figures, the dotted line down the 
middle expreffes the ftraight lines of which it is com- 
pofed; which, without the affiflance of curve lines, 
or light and fhade, would hardly fhew        it to have 
contents. 
The fame is true of the fecond, tho' by the bending 
of the horn, the firaight dotted line is changed into the 
beautiful waving-line. 
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