LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

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

SECT. I. Novelty

II. Pain and Pleasure

PART I.

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

yi. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation

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IX. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions

belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the

XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others

xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy

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IV. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with

II. 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

v. Proportion further considered

VI. Fitness not the cause of Beauty

VII. The real Effects of Fitness

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xv. Gradual Variation

IX. Perfection not the cause of Beauty

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

ib.

ties of the Mind

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

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ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART IV.

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

II. Association

VI. How Pain can be a Cause of Delight

ib.

VII. Exercise necessary for the finer Organs

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VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion

like Terror

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IX. Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime

x. Unity, why requisite to Vastness

XI. The artificial Infinite

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XVI. Why Darkness is terrible

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

XVII. The Effects of Blackness

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

v. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 173

OBSERVATIONS on a late PUBLICATION, INTituled The PRESENT

STATE OF THE NATION

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

CONCLUSION OF THE POLL

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SPEECH ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH

AMERICA

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