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Miscellaneous Pieces of M. De Secondat, Baron De Montesquieu
Miscellaneous Pieces of M De Secondat Baron De Montesquieu Author:Charles de Secondat Montesquieu General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1759 Original Publisher: Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham Subjects: French literature Literary Criticism / European / French Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gene... more »ral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: E S S A Y' UPON . T A S T E, In Subjects of Nature, and of Art. A FRAGMENT. /% Ccording to the prefent conftitution of .. tjL our being, the foul enjoys three forts of pleafure. That derived from its very exiftence; that which refults from its union with the body ; and that founded upon the turn and prejudices it has received from certain inftitutions, cufloms, and habits. 'Tisthe different pleafuresof the Soul which form the objects of Tafte ; as, the Beautiful the Good, the Agreeable, the Simple, the Delicate, the Tender, the Graceful, the inex- preflible charm, the Noble, the Grand, the Sublime, the Majeftic,« less