% 34 Rev. Mr. Hall's Inquiry concerning 
pious and grateful jentiments towards the a! P 
mighty Creator. A mind thus happily dif- 
pofed, in the animated language of Shakefpeare. 
“ Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks. 
Sermons in ftones, and good in every thing.” 
I fhall now mention a few inftances, where 
tafte feems to be productive of misfortune, and 
immorality. We frequently fee a man of real 
and acknowledge tafte, run into all the folly, 
and extravagance of virtue Jt is not fufficient 
for hiiTi, that he may be regaled with the pro¬ 
ductions of art and genius, in the pofllrflion of 
another. A man of this unhappy uirn, feels 4 
reftlefs defirp to call them his own. He is 
perpetually in queft of fome new objeCt •, but 
his unfortunate paftion grows more violent by 
indulgence; and, however a new acquifition 
may gratify for the moment ; yet, in the end, 
it becomes the fource of frefh difquiet. Thus^ 
like Pope’s Curio, who ? 
........ “ Reftlefs by his fair one’s fide. 
Sighs for an Qtho, and negle&s his bride 
He is perpetually haunted by the demon of 
tafte; his mind becomes fretful, peevtfh, and 
diftatisfied; equally incapable of giving, or 
receiving fatisfaCtion. But, fhould his circum¬ 
stances be contracted, the confequences are 
dreadful indeed ! He involves his deareft con¬ 
nections in all the miferies of poverty. 
“ The 
