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a strong degree, to see celebrates! men,, those whose talents and great qualities can alone render the present age an interesting object to posterity,, and prevent its being lost, like the dark ages which succeeded the destruction of the Roman empire, ia the oblivious vortex of time, leaving scarcely a rack behind. The durable monuments raised to fame by the inspiring genius of Pitt, and the invincible spirit of Frederick, will command the admiration of future ages, outlive the power of the empires which they aggrandized, and forbid the period in which they flourished, from ever pasting away like the baseless" fabric of a vision. The busts and statues of those memorable men will be viewed, by succeeding generations, with the fame regard and attention which we now bestow on those of Cicero and Cæsar. We expect to find something peculiarly noble and expressive in features which were 'animated, and which, we imagine, must have been in some degree modelled, by the alone which interests posterity. We knowthat men may be seated on thrones, who would have been placed more suitably to their talents on the working-table of a taylor; we therefore give little attention to the busts or coins of the vulgar empe-rors. In the countenance of Claudius, we expect nothing more noble than the phlegmatic tranquillity of an acquiescing cuckold $ in Caligula or Nero, the unrelenting frown of a negro-driver, or the insolent air of an unprincipled ruffian In power. Even in the high-praised Augustus we look for nothing essentially great, nothing superior to what we see in those minions of fortune, who are exalted, by a concurrence of incidents, to a situation in life to which their talents would never have raised them, and which their characters never deserved. In the face of Julius we expect to find the traces of deep reflection, magnanimity, and the anxiety natural to the man who had overturned

face of Marcus Brutus we look for independence, conscious integrity, and a mind capable of the highest effort of virtue.

It is ' natural to regret, that, of the number of antique statues which have come to us tolerably entire, so great a proportion are representations of gods and goddesses. Had they been intended for real persons, we might have had a perfect knowledge of the face and figure of the greatest part of the most distinguished citizens of ancient Greece and Rome. A man of unrelaxing wisdom would smile with contempt, and ask, if our having perfect representations of all the heroes, poets, and philosophers recorded in history, would make us either wiser or more learned? To which I answer, That there are a great many things, which neither can add to my small stock of learning nor wisdom, and yet give me more pleasure and satisfaction than those