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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

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PART I.

SECT. I. Novelty

11. Pain and Pleasure

89

67

68

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

sitive Pleasure

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

opposed

VI. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation

70

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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

regard to the Passions

90

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART III.

SECT. I. Of Beauty

111

112

11. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables

III. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals

IV. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human

Species

114

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118

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

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

133

ib.

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136

ib.

ib.

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ib.

138

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it.

VI. How Pain can be a Cause of Delight

ib.

VII. Exercise necessary for the finer Organs

148

VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion

like Terror

IX. 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

XIII. The Effects of Succession in visual objects explained

XIV. Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered

xv. Darkness terrible in its own nature

XVI. Why Darkness is terrible

XVII. The Effects of Blackness

SECT. XVIII. The Effects of Blackness moderated

XIX. The physical Cause of Love

xx. Why Smoothness is beautiful

XXI. Sweetness, its Nature

XXII. Sweetness relaxing

XXIII. Variation, why beautiful

165

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

things

170

v. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 173

vi. Poetry not strictly an imitative Art

177

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

SPEECH ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH

AMERICA

156