now brought into my mind, perhaps not unapplicable, and fo conclude the chapter. An elderly Lady of my acquaintance, who had been thrice a widow, declared peremptorily against a fourth husbandHowever it was her fate, I fuppofe, to marry again, foon after: and being challenged by fome of her Goffips, upon this breach of promise and resolution, the replied, that she was as much determined against such a compliance, ás ever he had been in any circumftance of her life, the very moment before, but that when the man asked her the question, fhe felt herself all over in fuch a frizzle, that fhe found it abfolutely impoffible to deny him. VOL. II. M Now Now what kind of a fenfation the good Gentlewoman meant, by the word Frizzle, I fhall not pretend to define; but muft refer you to Tria Juncta, for an explanation of it. He is your only philofopher for fuch occult faculties, believe me. In the mean time I here make a prefent of that noun to the English language, and take my leave of the fubject, for the prefent. CHAP. TH the coming in of the Penny-post, I cannot quit this delightful theme of the fenfes, till I have taken notice of fome philofophical errors, which a very ingenious writer, Lord Kaims, has introduced into his Elements of Criticifm, relative to them. In the first part of his introduction, he affects to diftinguifh the faculties of feeing or hearing, from the other fenfes, by faying, "that the body is "not sensible of any organical impreffion, from their perceptions." 2 But think that when the olfactory nerves are only flightly affected, they are equally infenfible to the impreffion, as the auditory ones; and when the found is loud, or the odour strong, the 290 refpective organs feel themfelves equally impreffed. I think the fame, of fight; for a ftrong light or glare, affects our eyes, even to pain. How He continues his partiality, ftill further, to these elect fenfes, by dignifying Seeing and Hearing with the titles of emotions and paffions, denying the fame honour to the other organs. Is this philofophical? Do not feeling, tafting, and smelling, excite defires, and folicit their objects, with even stronger impulfes, than either feeing or hearing do? lo? And if they do not create emotions and passions, what in nature can? nomarami sds or std@nota yllevos ere It had been fufficient for his argu 250 Vobus 941 26 ment, which refers to the fine arts, to bibi u balol have faid that the faculties of feeing and hearing, being capable of commu nicating intellectual pleafures, were therefore more intimately connected with them, than any of the other fenfes. were, which terminate in the common animal gratifications, only or ad asli ad diw ganoff has qua) 30 In one of his definitions, he fays, "that beauty and uglinefs are strictly confined to objects of fight; but bff that by a figure, or licence of fpeech, 13h they are often applied to other things; gof as a beautiful propofition, a beautiful |