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LONDON :
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
PAOR
A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: or, a View of the Miseries
und Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial
Society
A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE
SUBLIMB AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-
cerning Taste
Introduction. On Taste
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PART I.
Sect. I. Novelty
II. Pain and Pleasure
111. 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
yı. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preservation
VII. Of the Sublime
VIII. Of the Passions which belong to Society
IX. The final cause of the Difference between the Passions
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belonging to Self-preservation, and those which regard the
Society of the Sexes
x. Of Beauty
XI. Society and Solitude
XII. Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition
XIII. Sympathy
XIV. The Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of others
xv. Of the Effects of Tragedy
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Sect. XVI. Imitation
XVII. Ambition
xvII. The Recapitulation
XIX. The Conclusion
PAGR
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ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.--PART II.
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Sect. I. Of the Passion caused by the Sublime
11. Terror
III. Obscurity
iv. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with
regard to the Passions
[ıv.] The same subject continued
-v. Power
--VI. Privation
-VII. Vastness
vili. Infinity
ix. Succession and Uniformity
X. Magnitude in Building
- XI. Infinity in pleasing Objects
XI. Difficulty
- XIII. Magnificence
xiv. Light
xv. Light in Building
XVI. Colour considered as productive of the Sublime
XVII. Sound and Loudness
XVIII. Suddenness
xix. Intermitting
xx. The Cries of Animals
XXI. Smell and Taste. Bitters and Stenches
XXII. Feeling. Pain
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ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART III.
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SECT. I. Of Beauty
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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SECT. VIII. The Recapitulation
IX. Perfection not the cause of Beauty
x. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the Quali-
ties of the Mind
XI. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue
XII. The real Cause Beauty
XIII. Beautiful Objects small
XIV. Smoothness
xv. Gradual Variation
xvi. Delicacy
XVII. Beauty in Colour
XVIII. Recapitulation
XIX. The Physiognomy
XX. The Eye
XXI. Ugliness
XXI. Grace
XXIII. Elegance and Speciousness
xxiv. The Beautiful in Feeling
xxy. The Beautiful in Sounds
XXVI. Taste and Smell
XXVII. The Sublime and Beautiful compared
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ON THE SUBLIME AND Beautiful.-Part IV.
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Sect, 1. Of the efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful
II. Association
III. Cause of Pain and Fear
IV. Continued
'v. How the Sublime is produced
VI. How Pain can be a Cause of Delight
VII. Exercise necessary for the finer Organs
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
XI. The artificial Infinite
XII. The Vibrations must be similar
XII. 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
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ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-Part V.
Sect. 1. Of Words
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11. The Common Effects of Poetry, not by raising Ideas of
things.
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III. General Words before Ideas
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IV. The Effect of Words
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v. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images 173
vi. Poetry not strictly an imitative Art
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VII. How Words influence the Passions
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SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION
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OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION, INTITULED THE PRESENT
STATE OF THE NATION
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SPEECHES AT MR. BURKE's ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL, AND AT THE
CONCLUSION of the Poll
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