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887

TANTALUS!s

clip.

SeeHV1lRO'TATICS, p.

808.

TANZY, in botany. See TANAct TUM .

TAPE-wORM . See T"'HIA.

TAPESTRY,

curious kind of manuf.llure, ferving to

8?OTO

a chambc:r or other apartmc:nt,

coveríog or

Ji.

mng ,he wall. thercof.

i. a kind of wO'en h.ngings of

"'001 and filk, fr:quenJly raifed ánd eoriehed wilh gold

and filver, reprefenting figures of men animal, laod.

fkip', hiClories, Oc.

TAPPING, iD general, the all of piereing an hole in a ..f.

(el,

and applying a tuhe or canula in the apenure, (or the

commodious drawing

?f'f

the liquors contained

therein .

TAPPI"c, infurgery. SeeSuRCEOv, p.655.

TAR, a thick, blaek, unlluous rubllance, obt.ined from

old pines and fir-trees,

burning them with a

clore

fmo–

theriog he.. : mueh ufed in eoatingand eaulking fhip. ,

&c.

See (he anicle

PITCH .

Water

illlpregoatcd

with lhe more

folublc

paTts

of ur.

proves, in coofequence of lhis hot pungent 011, warm

and Oimulaling: it f,nfibly raiCé. the pulCe, and quieken.

the circulation .

there qualilies, in cold, Janguid,

phlegmatic habits,

llrengthen~

the folids, atlenuates

vircid juices, opens ob(lruélion! of lhe, minoter vecreJs,

and promotes perrpiration and the Ruid fecretions

ge–

nenl; whiHl in hOI b!lious temper;¡ments,

difpofes to

in8ammation, and aggravatel the complaints which

bas

becn employed 'o remoye.

TARACON , a city of Spain,. iD the province of Arragon,

fituated on the

eo~fin<s

of Old CaOile:

long.

2°

6',

and N. lat.

41° SS'.

TARAGON, a eity and port-town of Spain, in ,h. pro–

vioce of Catalonia. filuated

the Mediter,raneao (ea:

in E. long.

15', aod N.

Ial.

4tO 6'.

TARANTO, a port_town of ltaly, in the kingdom of

Naples,

fit~ated

on ,he gulpb of Otraoto, .fony·five mile.

we/l of ,ha, city, being the fee of ao arehbifhop.

TARANTULA, iD 20010gy. See

~RANEA.

TARE, is ao allowance for the outfide package, ¡that eoo–

raios (uch goods as cannOI be uflpacked without delriment;

or far the papt;TS, threads, bands,

Cre.

that ¡ociare or

bind any goods imponed loofe; or, Ihough imported in

ea(k••eheO.,

&c .Y<l

cannol be unpacked and weighed neU.

TARENTAIS DUCHV, the fouth divifion of Savoy, ha–

.ing P iedmon'

the Couth-can, and Slvoy Proper on

the north-w..n: ' Cubjeft 10

~he

king of Sardinia.

TARGET, a kiod of fhield or-\Veapon of defence made ufe

of by ,he ancien...

TARGUM , a name wh«eby ,he J ew. eall ,he Chaldee

paraphrafe., or expoGtion, of the Old TeOament in I.e

Chaldee language. S.. HtBLE .

TARIF, a ,able or catalogue, eontaioing Ihe names of dif–

fereot forts·of merchandize, wi\h lhe dutÍes to be paid,

as fettled by aUlhority, amongO trading nations.

TARPE IAN, in Roman antiquilY, ao appellation giveo ' o

rteep rock io R ome : ",heoce, by the law of Ihe Iwelve

tables, thofe gU11t y of certain crime, wcre precipilatcd.

T AR SUS. in onalo",y. Se< ANATO>1V, p. 12

sus. now Tera{fu. once the capital o( Cilicía, in the LeC.

fu Afia, oow

provinct: of

fiaBc"'urk

is fitu.ued onthe

north fide of the L t "nl feo : E . long.

35° ,

N . lat .

37°.

TARTA:R Se< CHEM"TRV, p.

~8,

,65'

TARTARY,

.,H

ooun,,·y in the nOllhero pa" of Afia,

bound' d by Sibt"a -un Ihe north .nd wefl: Ih.. " called

Vol.. lll. N°. 97·

Great:T.rt.ry.

T he Tarta" ",ho lie foulh of Mofco.y

and Slberaa, are thofe of Afincaft, Cir'i'ffia, aod D agi.

/lan, fi,ualed north·weO of Ihe CaCpian.fea; Ihe Calmue

TartafS, ,who lie between Siberi¡ and the Cafpian-fea;

Ihe U

fbec

Tartars and Mogul., who Jie north of PerGa

and I ndia; and, I.Hly, Ihofe of Tibet, who lie north–

weO of China.

T ASSEL , .•

Cort

of pendant oroameot

Ihe corne"

c\llbioo, or the like.

lo building, tarrels deoote Ihofe pieces of board ,hat

lje under the ends of the mantlet. rees.

TASTE, in phyfiology, • peculiar

fe~fatioo

exeited by

mCtOS

ofthe orgaos of ufie,

viz .

the papillz

the tClng\ie.

Scc

ANATOM V, p.

304.

In/.I/,{/uaITA sTE.

The external fenCe wi(hwhieh oature

h.. ruroifhed us;.and by whieh we

diOi~gulfh

and 'relifh ,he

'Jarious kinds of oauril'hOlent that are adapted to

he-alth

and

p,leaCure, has in all languages given oecalion to the meuphcr

flcal Vlord

'afie.

by which

vie

exprefs our perceptioDof

be.auty. deformity, or d.reél. in the Ceveral arlS.

TaJle

cheo, io general, is a quick difcernment, a fuddeo per–

ception, which, like the renCatian of the

p~lue,

anticí–

pates refleéliao ; like the

palate,

it retiChes what is good

with ao exquifi te aod valuptuoul renúbility, aod rejeéts

,he eontrary \Vith loalhing and diCguf\ ; like Ihe

pal.te

alfo,

is often doobtful, and, as it were, bewildered,

nat koawiog whether it Chould relilh or rejeét certain oh·

jeas, and frequc:ntly reqnires the ¡ofluence of

ha~it

¡ ive

a 6xed and uoiform detc:rmination.

T o hae a uO., fuppofes

fo.me

~hing mor~

thao merely

to perceive, aod

dircero with accuracy the beauty of

aoy work or objeél. Thi. beauty mun be

fel/,

well

peruivd;

,he mind muO b. touched aod affelled by

it iDa lively and Cenfible manner. Thi. feeliog Rowever,

in arder to cooHitute true

tafle.

mufl not be a vague and

cooCuCed fe ofatioD; but muO be altended wi,h a diOinll

view, a quick and comprehenfive difccrnmeot of [he va·

rious qualities, in their renral relatioos and conneélialls,

which eoter ioto lhe compoGtion of the objc:lt. we con·

template. And io Ibis Ule fee anolher firiking refembJaoce

betweeo the intel1eélual

u~te

and the [en(ual one: (or as

nice

palare perceíve:s immediuely lhe mixture of dlll"er..

ent wioe:s, fo the:

mOlO

of ta(le witl quiekly dircc:rn

th:

malle, mixture of differeDt Ilyles in the fame produllion;

and, let the beau'lcs and defell, be

e.er

fo c10fely blend–

ed in an objell. will alway. be eapable of d,rtiognifhing

.the former from the latter.

As the eorruption of Ih.

/"I/ual/aJlt

diCeove" itCelf

.by a relifh for only thoCe deliea't 3nd high.Ceafoned dilhcs,

whi'ch aH the re6nemc:nts of art have beco cmployc:d

to -excite a foreed fcnfalion of pleArUre ; fo the depnvity

of ,he

il//"Id/uol/.JI'

m.ni

len. itrelf-by an att.<hment

to far ·fC:lched and (l"dicd ornamenlS, and by a wflnt of

rc:liCh for thofe beauties which are.uoafF!.:tled aod natural.

The corruptiao of the feo,fual u ne, 'which makes us de·

Ilght in fu ch alimenu ;¡,s ar.e ,diCguCl,ing too thoCe ,whofe

organs are in a good

fl~te,

16 10

rc:allty a klod

dlfeafe ;

nor is that depruity of the iotelleaual

t~fle

whlch

ma k~s

many prefer the

hurlifqfu

to ,he

f uhlim.,

and ,he I. bour.

ed tbfTnefs of an

(he beitutiful fimplicity or, nature,

h:fs a dlCea(e in our mc:ntal frame.

The intelletlu"t

/a/i,'

is much more formed

,by

educa·

.tion and cuhure, than lhe fcorual oae; for thoQgh the

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