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220 calmer Thoughts, and the stiller Scenes of Life, and only use them to be better acquainted with the Nature, Violence, Degrees, and Expression of all the various Passions that exercise and distract the Mind of Man. Treatises are of no Use to inform us upon this great Subject, but when the Passions are practically displayed, all their Springs discovered, and the whole tumultuous Theory presented in lively Actions on the Stage, we see and feel the Agitation of the Actors in ourselves, we do really put on all their personated Passions, they strike upon our Souls, and Nature answers from within. We have but few great Masters in this noble Art. After Rh