certain paffages which are generally thought. obfcure. The author giving an attentive ear to every cenfure of this kind, has, in the prefent edition, renewed his efforts to correct every fuch defect; and he would gladly hope that he has not been altogether unsuccessful. The truth is, that a writer, who must be possessed of the thought before he can put it into words, is but ill qualified to judge whether the expreffion be fufficiently perfpicuous: in this particular, he must take upon himself to judge for the reader, who can much better judge for bimfelf. June 1763. CONTENT S. VOLUME I. Introduction, 1. Perceptions and ideas in a train, Part 1. Caufes unfolded of the emotions and paffions: Sect. 1. Difference between emotion and 2. Caufes of the emotions of joy and 3. Sympathetic emotion of virtue, 4. In many inftances one emotion is 5. Caufes of the paffions of fear and anger, 6. Emotions caused by fiction, Pag. 1 2. Emotions and paffions as pleafant and Chap. 2. continued. 3. Interrupted exiftence of emotions and paffions.-Their growth and 4. Coexiftent emotions and paffions, 5. The influence of paffion with respect to our perceptions, opinions, and Appendix. The methods that nature Chap. Pag. 15. External signs of emotions and paffions, 410 16. Sentiments, 435 17. Language of paffion, 477 VOLUME II. 18. Beauty of language, Sect. 1. Beauty of language with refpect to 2. Beauty of language with refpect to 3. Beauty of language from a refem- cation, 4. Verfification, 19. Comparisons, 20. Figures, Sect. 1. Perfonification, 2. Apostrophe, 4. The means or inftrument conceived 5. Afigure which, among related ob- 6. Metaphor and allegory, Pag. Į 6 18 83 98 182 225 226. 253 257 265 266 272 296 Table Chap. 20. Sect. 7. continued. Pag. 1. Subjects expreffed figuratively, 303 2. Attributes expreffed figuratively, 21. Narration and defcription, 24. Gardening and architecture, Appendix. Terms defined or explained, 309 322 365 398 425 481 499 IN |