Let us first consider this point in the sense of taste, and the rather as the faculty in question has taken its name from that sense.

All men are agreed to call vinegar sour, honey sweet, and aloes bitter; and as they are all agreed in finding those qualities in those objects, they do not in the least differ concerning their effects with regard to pleasure and pain.

They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant.

Here there is no diversity in their sentiments; and that there is not, appears fully from the consent of all men in the metaphors which are taken, from the souse of taste.

A sour temper, bitter expressions, bitter curses, a bitter fate, are terms well and strongly understood by all.