CONTENTS.

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A Philofophical Inquiry into the Origin of our

Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

[The firft edition of this work was published in 1756: the

fecond, with large additions, in the year 1757-1

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IV. Of Delight and Pleasure, as oppofed to each

other

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V. Joy and Grief

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VI. Of the Paffions which belong to Self-pre-

fervation

132

VII. Of the Sublime

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VIII. Of the Paffions which belong to Society
IX. The final caufe of the difference between
the Paffions belonging to self-preservation,

and those which regard the Society of the
fexes

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XIV. The effects of Sympathy in the diftreffes of

II. Proportion not the caufe of Beauty in Vege-

III. Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Animals

IV. Proportion not the cause of Beauty in the Hu-

man Species

V. Proportion further confidered

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X. How far the idea of Beauty may be applied

to the qualities of the mind

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XI. How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to

VI. How Pain can be a cause of Delight

VII. Exercife neceffary for the finer Organs

VIII. Why things not dangerous fometimes produce a paffion like Terrour

IX. Why visual objects of great dimensions are

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XIII. The effects of fucceffion in visual objects ex

plained

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XIV. Locke's opinion concerning Darkness confi-

dered

XV. Darkness terrible in its own nature

XVI. Why Darkness is terrible

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II. The common effect of Poetry, not by raising