PHILOSOPHY OF TASTE.

So far, then, as taste belongs to the imagination, its principle is

the same in all men; there is no different in the manner of their being

affected, nor in the causes of the affection; but in the DEGREE there

is a difference, which arises from two causes principally; either from

a greater degree of natural sensibility, or from a closer and longer

attention to the object.

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