HARVARD UN VERSITY LIS ARY DEC 4 1970

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

✔ A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: or, a View of the Miseries

and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial

Society

A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE

SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; with an Introductory Discourse con-

cerning Taste

Introduction. On Taste

PART I.

SECT. I. Novelty

II. Pain and Pleasure

III. 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

VI. 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

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

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART II.

IV. Of the Difference between Clearness and Obscurity with

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART III.

SECT. 1. Of Beauty

113

II. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables

III. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals

114

117

IV. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human

IX. Perfection not the cause of Beauty

x. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to the Quali-

ib.

ties of the Mind

130

XI. How far the Idea of Beauty may be applied to Virtue

131

ON THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.-PART IV.

SECT. I. Of the efficient Cause of the Sublime and Beautiful

II. Association

143

144

VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion

like Terror

149

IX. Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime

x. Unity, why requisite to Vastness

ib.

150

XI. The artificial Infinite

XII. The Vibrations must be similar

XIII. 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

11. The Common Effects of Poetry, not by raising Ideas of

things.

170

III. General Words before Ideas

171

IV. The Effect of Words

172

v. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images

vi. Poetry not strictly an imitative Art

173

177

OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION, INTITULED THE PRESENT

STATE OF THE NATION

185

THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS

306

SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION

382

SPEECHES AT MR. BURKE'S ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL, AND AT THE

CONCLUSION OF THE POLL

438

SPEECH ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH

AMERICA

450