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By PAUL MOON JAMES, Esa. 
(Read the 7th January, 1840.) 
The pleasure which we derive either from 
Music, from Architecture, or from Sculpture, is 
heightened or diminished by the possession or 
the absence of a cultivated taste; and the emo- 
tions of the mind will be more or less awakened 
into admiration or delight, according to our know- 
ledge of the principles which ought to govern the 
labours of the artist, as well as the judgment of 
the Spectator. 
What is the nature of those principles, and 
from what law or quality of our constitution they 
are derived, have been the subjects of frequent 
