DEF 
contemplating the actions and affections of moral agents 
may exift in very different degrees, on account of the inci- 
aaa obftruétions, arifing from bodily far pos dor mental 
offend ; and ape | evil a@ions mutt 
azreeable, and never of themfelves pleafe. What 
is right in aicas and gael is beautiful and 
gives pleafure ; what is wrong is deformed 
: can and ane wrong 
u eff o lefs 
abfurd to maintain, that the perception o of ee nothin ng 
refulting from it, 
e me folidity, ex- 
are only parti 3 of fenfation, 
becaufe attended whenever ney are persed with fome 
oo of fight or touch. _Thus does this author deal 
d to pleafe every free unbiaffed 
hem. He accounts for the pleafure they afford, without 
referring them to an arbitrary, internal fenfe, by the follow- 
ing circumftances that attend them. The y 3 ok more eafily 
1 try | things 
valuable 
a b 
purpofe; regularity and order evidence art and defi Dil- 
onfu whence d 
ign. 
” order — fion, whence deformity arifes, denote only 
the n cn of regularity and order; or any arrangement 
and difposition of things, which are not according to a law, 
Thefe are not pofitive- 
ed order, 
mpot of fkill-appear, and the con- 
triver has ane “failed of | his eign, or executed it il]. See 
on this fubjeét Dr. Price’s Review of the sracel Quef- 
tions and Difficulties in Morals, a“ ii. paflim. See an ad- 
mirable Effay on ries pate by Mr. mek in the 
Fugitive Pieces, vol. ee Beauty 
DEFOSSION, Defi’ ao ponies of burying 
nfliGted, amon mans, on Veftal virgins guilt yo 
i cuftom among the Hungarians 
unifhment on women convicted of adul- 
Heretics alfo were punifhed in this manner. See 
Buriat 
DEFTARDAR, or Derrerpar, or Tefte rdar-effendi, 
the treafurer of be revenues of the Turkifh empire, or the 
a ee sid the ances. 
T is Smpocidel firft, of a a Turkifh name 
fora book, regifter, memoir, &c. h Meninfli derives 
from the Greek Seca, the fin or pee chment anciently 
wrote on. The fecond word, whereof deftardar is com- 
pounded, is dar, a Turkifh and Perfian word, fignifying 
dois or eres gq. d. book-keeper of the monies received 
and expen 
— ai him i emus alan high treafurer ; 
and prefes camera, prehdent of equer. Caftellus 
an him the Keeper and cometicllce of the books of re- 
ceipts and pa 
The deflerdity or, as Vigenere calls hia: dephterderi, has 
i the 
x alive, 
n 
he c expences ‘ al : 
office differs rs fant of khafné- ‘veliki, a black 
peer ete is charged with "the general adminiftration af 
if 
& 
DEG 
the interior imperial treafure, into which is eceniel the pros 
duce of the confifcations and inheritances that ferve for the 
fupport of the feraglio. prefents, the effets, the 
o jewels which are feut by foreign ey thofe acquired by 
conquelt, the colonies, &c. conftitute a part of this treafure. 
This treafurer or minifter of the pace is alfo different 
from the chaznadar or khafnadar-aga, who is one of the 
pages of confidence, and adminifters the private treafure of 
the fultan, as the others do thefe of the fate and of the 
feraglio. The fultan’s private ie increafed by the 
avings of the greater number o ultans, is fupported 
d by oa c i 
¢ t 
fitts of awe ie oe ae fale of the great employments, 0 
that which arifes from the annual renewal of the barats or 
firmans, obtained by the -zaims, timariots, and others, the 
produce of the beech or capitation-tax on the Jews and 
Chriftians, the are of the farmed domains, that of the 
cuttoms, ke. 
icaut na a deftardar, whom he calls teftardar, in 
each is ade Se or gov ernment. -Vigencre affures us, 
d- e but the one for Europe, “and the other foe 
Afia; ne art vefides at Coane and has under him 
two general commiffioners, or deputies, one iad Hungary, 
py helen Walachia, Croatia, Servia, ria, Bofnia, 
the other for Greece and the Morea, oak the iflands 
of the oe lago. 
ie - thefe ‘has wider him as many ee 
8, as the 
their diftricts. 
puties, the one for Anatolia ; Syria, Arabia, 
and Egypt: - have likewife their fub-agents, clerks, &c. 
as thofe of Europ 
DEGAGNAC, in Geographys a town of fia in the 
department of the Lot; 44 leagues N. of C 
DEGENERATION, the ae of faillog. or - declining 
from a more a or valuable kind, ftate, or condition, to 
an inferior or wor 
u 8a irennous advocate for the a pagans of 
animals, ana he afcribes it to three caufes, viz. the tempera- 
of the c fie the quality of the food, aaa ale evils 
produce by flavery. Whenever man, he fays , began to 
change his climate, Ar to migrate from one country to an- 
other, his nature became fubject to various Fy sea which 
ance eden is res 
he origi nally 
rhe had t 
continents, intermixing with at aie had Ke oe degene- 
rated under the influence of different climates ; after he was 
habituated to the oe heats of the fouth, and the 
frozen regions of the n 3 he underwent changes fo con- 
tas au . a eee as to furnifh occafion for fuf- 
pained on a one hand, tha 
t one man ales 
he concludes, that thofe marks eer difineoith men who 
inhabit different regions of the carth are not original, but 
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