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Taste.
clear, deep, bright and strong, sincere and pure, sound and dry, (as our Advertisements do well express it) which last is a commendable Term, that contains the Juice of the richest Spirits, and only keepeth out all Cold and Dampness.
It is common to commend a Man, my Lord, for an Ear to Music, and a Taste of Painting, which are nothing but a just Discernment of what is excellent and most perfect in them: The first dependeth entirely on the Ear; a Man can never expect to be a Master, that hath not an Ear tuned and set to Music: And You can no more sing an Ode
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