-Bu2102.90.79
KD60978 (1)

1874, April 28. Bequest of Hon! Chas. Summer,

of Boston.
JOHN L. CON

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: or, a View of the Miseries

and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial

Society

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THe Origin of our Ideas of the

SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-

cerning Taste

Introduction. On Taste

PAGE

49

52

PART I.

SECT. I. Novelty

67

II. Pain and Pleasure

68

III. The Difference between the Removal of Pain, and po-

sitive Pleasure

IV. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other

v. Joy and Grief

VI. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation

VII. Of the Sublime

ib.

VIII. Of the Passions which belong to Society

70

71

73

74

75

IX. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions

belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the

Society of the Sexes

XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others

xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy

ib.

81

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART II.

IV. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART III.

SECT. 1. Of Beauty

113

II. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables

III. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals

114

117

IV. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human

Species

118

SECT. VIII. The Recapitulation.

IX. Perfection not the cause of Beauty

x. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the Quali-

PAGE

129 ..

ib.

ties of the Mind

130

XI. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue

131

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART IV.

SECT. I. Of the efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful

II. Association

VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion

like Terror

149

x. Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime

x. Unity, why requisite to Vastness

ib.

150

XI. The artificial Infinite

151

XII. The Vibrations must be similar

152

XIII. The Effects of Succession in visual objects explained

153

XIV. Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered

xv. Darkness terrible in its own nature

155

156

XVI. Why Darkness is terrible

157

XVII. The Effects of Blackness

158

SECT. XVIII. The Effects of Blackness moderated

XIX. The physical Cause of Love

PAGK

159

160

1. The Common Effects of Poetry, not by raising Ideas of

things.

170

III. General Words before Ideas

171

IV. The Effect of Words

172

v. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images

173

OBSERVATIONS on a late PublICATION, INTITULED THE PRESENT

STATE OF THE NATION

185

THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS

306

SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION

382

SPEECHES AT MR. BURKE'S ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL, AND AT THE

CONCLUSION OF THE POLL

438