ARCHIBALD ALISON, LL. B. F. R. S. LONDON AND EDINBURGH, PREBENDARY OF SARUM, EDINBURGH: Printed by George Ramsay & Company, FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH; LONDON. 1812. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE first Edition of this Work was published in the year 1790. After so long an interval, I should not have presumed again to present it to the public, if I had not been informed by my booksellers, that some wish had lately been expressed for a Second Edition. In preparing it for the press, I have thought it my duty to add a few observations on the Origin of the Beauty and Sublimity of the Human Countenance and Form, to complete the Second Essay. Of the general plan which I have sketched in the Introduction, I lament to think that so little has been accomplished; and still more, that the progress of years, and |