For sensibility and judgment, which are the qualities that compose what we commonly call a _taste_, vary exceedingly in various people.

From a defect in the former of these qualities arises a want of taste; a weakness in the latter constitutes a wrong or a bad one.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt, with tempers so cold and phlegmatic, that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Upon such persons the most striking objects make but a faint and obscure impression.

There are others so continually in the agitation of gross and merely sensual pleasures, or so occupied in the low drudgery of avarice, or so heated in the chase of honors and distinction, that their minds, which had been used continually to the storms of these violent and tempestuous passions, can hardly be put in motion by the delicate and refined play of the imagination.