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cletus have difcovered the fubftance and eftablifhed thepermanent principle of the human frame, they have notexhaufted the variety of human appearances and humancharacter ; if they have abftracfted the forms of majeftyand thofe of beauty, nature compared with their workswill point out a grace that has been left for thee; if theyhave pre-occupied man as he ts, be thine to give himthat air with which he actually appears (r).

Such was the advice of Eupompus: lefs lofty lefs am-bitious than what the departed epoch of genius wouldhave dictated, but better fuited to the times, and betterto his pupil’s mind. When the fpirit of liberty forfookthe public, grandeur had left the private mind of Greece :fubdued by Philip, the gods of Athens and Olympia hadmigrated to Pella, and Alexander was become thereprefentative of Jupiter ; dill thofe who had loft thefubftance fondled the fhadow of liberty; rhetoric mi-micked the thunders of oratory, fophiftry and meta-phyftc debate that philofophy, which had guided life,and the grand tafte that had di&ated to art the monu-mental

('■) Lyfippum Sficyonium— audendi rationcm cepifl'e pictoris Eupompi refponfo.Eum enim interrogatuin, quern fequeretur anteeedentium, dixifle deinonftrata ho-rn inum multitudine, natnram ipfam imitandam e/l'e, non artificem. Non habetLatinum nomen fymmetria, quam diligentiffime cufcodivit, nova intaelaque rationequadratas veieram ftaturas pcrmntaudo : Vulgoque dicebat, ab ibis faetos, qualeseffcnt, homines; a fe, quales viderentur efle. Plin. xxxiv. 8.