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The FINE ARTS.
MUSIC and painting, and many other ingenious arts, are now brought to great perfection, and afford the moſt rational and delicate pleaſure.
It is eaſy to find out if a young perſon has a taſte for them. If they have, do not ſuffer it to lie dormant. Heaven kindly beſtowed it, and a great bleſſing it is; but, like all other bleſſings, may be perverted: yet the intrinſic value is not leſſened by the perverſion. Should nature have been a niggard to them in this reſpect, perſuadethem
