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Omniprefence of God, II. 34.

Opinions of mankind afford fome direction in refpect of the rule of
life, II. 198. Favourable to virtue, II. 200.

Opium, its effects.confidered, I. 49.

Origin of evil not folved by philofophical free-will, II. 63.

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Pain exceeds pleasure in degree, I. 35. Declines from the fre-
quent repetition of the painful impreffion, I. 38.

Pains, internal, how we judge of their feat, I. 140.
Painting, the pleasures arifing from it confidered, I. 426.
Paralytical infenfibilities confidered, 1. 133.

PARISIAN beggar, I. 44, 46.

Paffions, violent ones confidered, I. 398.

Paternal love of God confidered, P. III. 748.

Peristaltic motion of the inteftines, I. 171, 177.

Perplexities of understanding in abftrufe and important matters,
practical rules concerning them, II. 256.

Philology briefly confidered, 1. 355-

Philofophical language, fome hints concerning the method of con-
ftructing one, 1. 315.

Philofophy, natural, briefly confidered, I. 363.

Phrenjy briefly confidered, I. 55:

Phyfic, art of, the relation which it bears to the doctrines of vi-
brations and affociation, I. 264.

Pia mater may penetrate, divide, and subdivide the medullary
fubftance, I. 18.

Pleafure, the general endeavour to obtain it confidered, II. 211.
P. III. 635.

Pleafures and pains, the different kinds of, confidered, I. 39.
Intellectual, their origin, I. 80. Of feeling, how they con-
tribute to the formation of our intellectual pleasures and
pains, I. 143. Of tafte, how they contribute, &c. 1. 166.
Of fmell, how they contribute, &c. I. 185. Of fight, how
they contribute, &c. I. 207. Of agreeable and disagreeable
founds, how they contribute, &c. I. 233.

Poetry, the pleasures arifing from it confidered, I. 428.

Polite arts, lawfulness of the ftudy of them confidered, P. III. 651.
Power, divine, infinity of, II. 9.

Practice of mankind, affords fome direction in refpect of the rule of
life, II. 197. Favourable to virtue, II. 199, P. III. 629.
Prayer, practical rules concerning it, II. 331.

rity, II. 150.

Prophecies, contained in the fcriptures prove their divine autho-
May have double fenfes, II. 160. Thofe
of the Old Teftament properly applied by the writers of
the New, II. 162. Confiderations on, P. III.

577, 681.

Propofitions,

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Propofitions, mathematical, I. 325. Concerning natural bodies,
I. 329. Concerning paft facts, I. 331. Concerning fu-
ture facts, I. 332. Speculative and abstracted, I. 332.
Providence, general and particular, confidered, II. 44, P. III. 517.
Preffure, the fenfations attending it, confidered, I. 130.
Pulfe, intermittent, I. 246. Fluttering, I. 247.
Punishments confidered, P. III. 494.

R.

Rays of light compared to fluxions, I. 352.

Reafon, ufe of in matters of faith, P. III. 694.

Reception of the Jewish and Chriftian religions proves their truth, II. 189. Of falfe ones, an argument to the fame purpofe, II. 191.

Recurrency of the fame ideas, its effects on the mind, I. 397. Reformation of the whole world never attempted before Chrift,

II. 177.

Religion, prefuppofes practical free will, II. 53. Does not prefuppofe philofophical free-will, II. 56. End of, P. III. 459. Natural and revealed, connection between, II. 52, P. III. 518. Diffentions in, not prevented by articles of faith, P. III. 672. Religions, pagan, derived from patriarchal revelations, II. 112. Religious knowledge, confidered as a branch of knowledge in general, I. 366.

Repentance confidered, P. III. 526.

Repulfions of the fmall particles of matter, I. 20, 27.

Refignation to God's will, II. 322.

Refpiration, increased during sleep, I. 52. How begun and continued, I. 95, 248.

Revelations, patriarchal, judaical, and christian, their good effects upon the world, II. 174.

Revealed religion, confirmed by natural, II. 52. P. III. 518.
Reveries briefly confidered, I. 383.

Rifus fardonius, I. 171.

Ructus, I. 173.

Rule of faith, II. 347.

Rule of life, II. 196, P. III. 629. Motives to enforce the true one, II. 343.

S.

Salvation, its terms confidered, II. 404, P. III. 691.

Sciences reduced to feven general heads, I. 353. Pleasures arifing from the ftudy of them confidered, I. 433. Practical rules concerning this study, II. 255.

Scriptures, truth of the facts contained in them, proves their divine

authority, II. 79.

Self

Its plea-
The pur-
Practical

Self-intereft, its pleasures and pains confidered, I. 458.
fures not to be made a primary purfuit, II. 271.
fuit of them to be regulated by religion, II. 279.
obfervations on self-interest and self-annihilation, II. 280.
P. III. 653.
Senfation defined, I. 2. Depends on the brain, I. 7. Its conti-
nuance in the mind, 1. 9. Mere fenfations explained, I. 41.
Senfible pleasures, ought not to be made a primary pursuit, II. 211.
The purfuit of them to be regulated by religion, II. 215.
Senforium, to be placed in the brain, I. 31.

Seces, their defires towards each other confidered, I. 239. Prac-
tical rules concerning thefe defires, II. 228.

Sighing confidered, I. 251.

Sight, its immediate organ,

I. 191.

Sleep, its phenomena confidered, I. 45.

Smell, extent and powers of its organ, and its phenomena con-

fidered, I. 180.

Smiling confidered, I. 171.

Sneezing confidered, I. 97, 189.

Social behaviour, practical rules for regulating it, II. 292.

Softness of the medullary fubftance, I. 17.

Solution of continuity, attended with pain, I. 35.

Sounds, doctrine of, favours that of vibrations, I. 27, 231.

Spasms in the inteftines confidered, I. 173.

Spirituality of God, II. 31.

Spots, dark ones before the eye confidered, I. 199.

Speaking, action of, confidered, I. 105.

Squinting confidered, I. 218, 221.

STAHL, his hypothefis concerning animal motion, I. 110, 266.

Stammering confidered, I. 260.

Stomach and bowels, their fenfations confidered, I. 157.

Stretching, action of, confidered, I. 99, 255.

Style of the fcriptures a proof of their genuinenefs, II. 97.

Subferviency of pain to pleasure declared in the fcriptures, II. 180.

Suction, action of, confidered, I. 169.

Sufpenfion of actions, voluntary, confidered, I. 261.

Sufpenfion of choice, how far fubject to the will, P. III. 539.

Superftition, a degeneration of the fear of God, I. 491.

Swallowing, action of, confidered, I. 97, 170.

Symbolical books confidered, P. III. 671.

Sympathy, its pleafures and pains confidered, according to the
doctrine of affociation, I. 471. Its pleafures may be a pri-
mary pursuit, II. 283.

T.

Tabernacle, Jewish, its exquifite workmanship an evidence of the
divine authority of the fcriptures, II. 184.

Tangible

Tangible qualities confidered, I. 136. The true reprefentatives of the properties of bodies, I. 138.

Tafte, organ of, its extent and powers, I. 151. The differences

of tastes confidered, I. 153. Hints for the better analyfing them, I. 156. The changes made in the tafte confidered, I. 162.

Tears, the fhedding of them in grief confidered, I. 253.

Temple, Jewish, its exquifite workmanship an evidence for the divine authority of the fcriptures, II. 184.

Theopathy, its pleasures and pains confidered, I. 486, P. III. 653. Its pleafures are our primary pursuit, II. 309.

Thirst confidered, 1. 161.

Threats of God, to be underflood conditionally, P. III. 752.
Time, paft and future, prefent to God, II. 28.

Titillation, its phenomena confidered, I. 129.

Torpedo, the effects from its stroke confidered, I. 133.

Traditional authority for the fcriptures fufficient to establish their truth and genuineness, Il. 84.

Truft in God, II. 322.

Types contained in the fcriptures prove their divine authority,

II. 160.

V.

Venomous bites and ftings confidered, I. 134.

Ventriloqui, 1, 228, 231.

Veracity of God, II. 37.

I. 12.

Vibrations of the medullary particles explained, I. 11, Proved, The manner in which they are communicated to the whole medullary fubftance, I. 21. Their four differences, I. 30. Origin of the motory vibrations, I. 91.

Vibratiuncles, their generation, I. 58. Raised by affociation, I. 67. Generation of complex ones, I. 79. May be fo increased as to equal fenfory vibrations in ftrength, I. 80. Generation and affociations of motory ones, I. 101.

Vis inertia confidered, P. III. 508.

Vifion, fingle and double, confidered, I. 204.

Understanding defined, I. 3.

Uniformity of the medullary fubftance, I. 16.

Unity of defign, which appears in the fcriptures, proves their divine authority, II. 126.

Univerfality, want of it in the publication of revealed religion, no objection to it, II. 184.

Vomiting, action of, confidered, I. 97, 172, 177.
Urine, its expulfion confidered, I. 97, 175, 178.

W.

Walking, action of, confidered, I. 256.

Wall

Will defined, I. 3, 371.

Wisdom of God confidered,, P. III. 515.

Wit, the pleasure arifing from it, confidered, I. 437

Words get ideas by affociation, I. 268. The manner in which

this is done, I. 270. Their four claffes, I. 277. Mistakes in their use and application, I. 283. A chief means in generating the intellectual pleasures and pains, I. 285. And in rendering our ideas complex, I. 287.

Wounds, the pains attending them confidered, I. 126.

Y.

Yawning, action of, confidered, I. 99, 255.

Z.

ZOROASTER's inftitutions, fhort remarks on them, II. 193..

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