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travellers. That same sensibility to the beauty of
forms and colours which had awakened his genius
for painting, Was, probably, accompanied with a
general superior susceptibility of the other organs
as well as the sight; for it is observed that a taste
for
any one
of
the
fine
arts
is
with
connected
3
general
predilection
fo 1'
them
all.
But
neither
the Apollo, the Vatican, nor the pomp of the Ca-
tholic ritual, excited his feelings to so great a
degree as the spectacle which presented itself to
his View around the portico of the church. Bred
in the universal prosperity of Pennsylvania, Where
the benevolence of the human bosom was only
employed in acts of hospitality and mutual kind-
ness,i he had never witnessed any spectacle of
beggary, nor had he ever heard the name of God
uttered to second an entreaty for alms. Here,
however, all the lazars and the wretched in Rome
were collected together; hundreds of young and
old in that extreme of squalor, nakedness, and
disease, which affrights the English traveller in
Italy, were seen on all sides; and their importa-
nities aind cries, for the love of God, and the mercy
of Christ, to relieve them, thrilled in his ears, and
smote
UPOII
his
heart
to
a degree,
such
that his