may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical solidity, but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces and elegancies of taste, without which the greatest proficiency in those sciences will always have the appearance of something illiberal.

CONTENTS.

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of
our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 121

[The first edition of this work was published in 1756; the
second, with large additions, in the year 1757.]

IV. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to

SECT.

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VIII. Of the Passions which belong to Society 134

IX. The final cause of the Difference be-

tween the Passions belonging to Self-

preservation, and those which regard

Power

XVII. Ambition

XVIII. Recapitulation

XIX. The Conclusion

I.

II.

III.

IV.

[IV.]

V.

PART II.

Of the Passion caused by the Sublime

Terrour

Obscurity

Of the Difference between Clearness and

Obscurity with regard to the Passions

The same subject continued

157

158

160

161

163

168

XXI. Smell and Taste. Bitters and Stenches 198

X.

How far the idea of Beauty may be ap-

plied to the Qualities of the Mind

232

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XI. How far the idea of Beauty may be ap-

VI. How Pain can be a cause of Delight

263