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    j > ines of so richly vinous and masculine a flavour as those we had to-day from Porto Rico , though I have found others that were more luscious . It was the large black pine of the West Indies , and in its thick , bronzed , massy rind , with ebony thorns

    rising from the top of every cone or joint in the shelly ipail of the entire pyramid , built like a Temple of the Sun , would have been as great a treasure to any painter of still life as it was to the enjoyers of the gastric one . During the dessert , the question was started as to the particular " hobbies" each individual at table . I forget what the Ambassador said .

    Castillio named ' * wine , horses , and politics /' ^ as his favourite objects of amusement . De Zandt said , that " through the whole course of his life he had always desired two things—a high reputatiop , resulting from honourable actions , and plenty of money . " The rest are not worth mentioning . By way of doing penance for so dangerous an indulgence as that of eating rather freely

    of pine on first entering a hot climate , I made an abstract the same evening of Dr J . Johnson ' s ' Tropical Hygiene / which a friend in Edinburgh had sent me previous to my departure , and I gave a copy of it to the Baron . Not that he needed the admonitions more than the others ; on the contrary , he was the most abstemious of them all , and from this I knew he would

    be the most likely to benefit himself by the physician ' s advice . I also was sufficiently abstemious , always drinking water in common , and light wines occasionally : scarcely ever any spirits . For this I was laughed at by Captain S , P , Bryden , and in fact by most of the officers . We shall see the result . M . I . D . ( To be continued *)

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    Taste is the collective name for the opinions which we form of the power of natural objects , or works of art , to excite the pleasures of imagination ; and opinions upon this subject , as on any other , are of course correct or incorrect , true or false , accordingly as they agree , or are at variance with the actual State of facts . An opinion , or sentence of taste , that an object

    is beautiful , is correct if it correspond with the actual power of the object to excite the emotion of beauty . An opinion , or sentence of taste , that an object is sublime , is correct if the object actually have the power of exciting the emotion of sublimity thus ascribed to it . The standard , or test of the correctness of taste , is thus the state of facts which it refers to ; and a comparison with these constitutes an application of the

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    2 g Is there a Standard qfi Taste ?

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    IS THERE A STANDARD OF TASTE ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/30/