Excerpt from An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric
J, Taste is f the power of receiving pleasure or pain from the beauties or deformities of Na ture and of Art.f It is a faculty common in some degree to all men. Through the circle of human nature nothing is more general than the relish of beauty of one kind or other of what is orderly, proportioned, grand, harmonious, new.
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