The Rev. Mr. Hall’s Inquiry concerning, &c. 223 
The value of foreign pot-afh is no where 
better known than in England, there being, per¬ 
haps, no part of the world in which there is a 
greater confumption of it, nor which is fupplied 
with it upon cheaper terms ; which circumftance 
mult ftrongly recommend its ufe. 
An Attempt-to /hew, that a Taste for the Beauties 
of Nature and the fine Arts , has no Influence 
favour ah le to Morals. By the Rev. Samuel 
Hall, A. M. Read May 15, 1782. 
Nullius addiftus jurare in verba ma^iiiri. 
Hor. Ep. I. Lib. 1. 
Scilicet uni atquus virtuti. 
. Hor. Sat. I. Lib. I. 
H E Society, which I have now the honour 
to addrefs, has lately been prefented with 
feveral ingenious papers on taste. It may, 
therefore, be thought neceflary to make an apolo¬ 
gy, for bringing forward a fubjed, which has 
been already fo well inveftigated. 
Were I to purfue the track of thofe who have 
gone before, it would be the higheft prefumption 
to fuppofe, that any obfervations I could make, 
would be deferving attention. Jt would be to 
offer 
