Defects as a didactic work, 463. How explained by his
followers, 464. et seq.

Love and hatred, passions of, defined, 266. Their objects
and subjects, 268. et seq.

Lycaleon, makes the statue of Chabrias plead for that
General, 404

M

Macbeth, his character, 473.

Lady, her character con-
formable to Aristotle's rules, 470-472.

Magee, Dr., Archbishop of Dublin, cited, 25. note. His
strictures on Dr. Smith's “ Origin of general Names,” 128.

et seq.

Man, his moral constitution explained, 155. et seq. Aris-
totle's account thereof more exact than that of subse-
quent philosophers, 118-124.

Manhood, prime of, its characteristics, 307. et seq.
Marsilius, Ficinus, his fanciful platonism, 22.

Maxims, what constitutes their propriety, 328.

Meekness, and placability, their nature and objects, 263.

Melancholy, wherein pleasant, 219.

Metaphors, their use and abuse, 371-374. Simple and
analogical, 410.

Metaphysics, their use, 72. Limits to their improvement,

145.

Method, inductive, 35. et seq. Of investigation, 461. note.
In oratory, 420. et seq.

Milton cited, 477.

Monboddo, Lord, warped in explaining Aristotle, 26.

N

Narrative, in panegyric, 432. Its rules, 433. In judicial
pleadings, 434. How to be made moral and pathetic,
435. et seq. In deliberative eloquence, 438. et seq.
Nature, what, 112. 214.

Newton, Sir Isaac, approves Aristotle's doctrine of causes,

99. Regards it as the only foundation of science, 120.
His optical discoveries, 145.

Nicanor, 336. note.

Nobility, what? 176. et seq. Its characteristics, 308.
Nouns, appellative, their invention, 128.

Controversy on

Oaths, evidence by, 248. Arguments concerning them,

249.

Objections, rhetorical, their nature and number, 359. et seq.
Old age, its characteristics, 304. et seq. Green, wherein it
consists, 181.

Oratory, its three kinds, 167. Distinguishable according to
their subjects, times, and ends, 168. et seq. Demonstra-
tive, the propositions belonging to it, 199. et seq. Deli-
berative, on what it mainly depends, 253. Impas-
sioned, the indulgence granted to it, 390. The deliber-
ative more difficult than the judiciary, and why, 443.
Ovid cited, 326. note.

P

Paley, Archdeacon, his theory of morals imperfect, 120.

note.

Parables, what? 219. Illustrated in the conversations of
Socrates, ibid.

Parity of reason, topic of, 327.

Passions, Aristotle's account of, 12. 255. et seq. Their
purgation by music, 474. By tragedy, 476. et seq.

Pathos and argumentation not to be employed simultane-
ously, 442.

Patricius, of Ferrara, a reformer in philosophy, 79.

Peace and war, how deliberations concerning them to be
guided, 173.

Penn, Mr., his "argument of the Iliad," 470. note.
Peroration, the, its four purposes, 451.

Pericles cited, 195. His sarcasm against Ægina, 403.
Persuasion, how operated by enthymemes and examples,
161. When these are to be respectively employed, 162.

et seq.

Philip of Macedon, his reasoning with the Thebans, 338.

Philosophy, the inductive, 96. Exact, Aristotle's, 72. et seq.
His doctrine of intellect, 73. Of causes,75. Vindicated, 77.
Of custom, 80. Concerning the office of language, 139. et
seq. Concerning human nature, 137. et seq. Natural
philosophy, its perpetual improvement, 144. Moral and
political, comprising ethics, politics, and rhetoric, 147.
Pity defined, 287. Its subjects, 288. Causes, 289. How
the passions purged by pity and terror, 474. et seq.
Plato, his objection to tragedy, 475. Wholly inconsistent
with Aristotle's moral doctrines, ibid.

Pleasure, its connection with action, 140.

Erroneous no-

tions of, 141. 143. Defined, 215. Its sources, 216. et
seq.

Pope, his translation of Homer, 33. 185, 186. Criticised,
227. note, 438. 441.

Power, men in, their characteristics, 310.

Prevost, Mr., of Geneva, cited, 86.

Principles, original, those of Dr. Reid and his followers, 95.
Prodicus, the sophist, how he excited attention, 426.

Proof, in judicial oratory, 440. How its place is supplied
in eulogy, ibid. Proofs artificial, three sources of them,
159. et seq.

Prose, its harmony, 391. Of what kind, and how attained,
392. et seq.

Prosperity, its constituents and characteristics, 312. et seq.
Proverbs, when proper, 326.

Q

Qualities, primary and secondary, 85. note. Occult, 79.
Quantity, discrete and continuous, proper and improper, 57.
Wherein its peculiarity consists, ibid. In mathematical
quantities, equality is identity, 59.

Quintilian, his praise of Aristotle, 448. Closely follows
him, 459. Cited for the character of women, 472. et seq.

note.

R

Ridicule, 451.

Reid, Dr., his requisites for interpreting Aristotle, 35. His

defects, 35. His merit in the "Philosophy of Sensation,"

145.

Refutations, why more cogent than arguments, 444.

Reformers, their animosity to Aristotle, 23. Luther's invec-
tive, how occasioned, ibid.

Relations, topic of, 336.

Revenge, wherein pleasant, 219.

Rhetoric, Aristotle's, analysis thereof, 9. A picture of the
mind of the Athenians, 13. Its extensive nature and use,
157-159. A model for philosophical treatises on the
arts, 457. Compared with preceding and subsequent
works on the same subject, 458. et seq.

Rhetorician, how distinguished from the sophist and from the
philosopher, 158.

Rich, the, characteristics of, 309. et seq.

S

Sappho, her answer to the bashful Alcæus, 203. Her
amatory ode, 462.

Scepticism, modern, its history, 80. et seq.

Scholastics mistook Aristotle's speculative tenets, and ne-
glected his practical admonitions, 22. et seq.

Sense, common, Dr. Reid and Dr. Beattie's account of, 93.
Sentences, or maxims, their four kinds, 324. Whom they
become, 325. Reversing of, 327. Its use, ibid.

Sergius, the translator of Aristotle into Syrian, 47.
Shakspeare cited, 386. note. His transcendant merits, 468.
Individuality of his characters, 469. note.

Shame defined, 277. Deductions from this definition, 278.
Smith, Dr. Adam, 120. His Theory of Moral Sentiments
criticised, 123. His obligations to Aristotle, 122. 124.
His judgment warped in explaining him, 126.

Socrates shook the doctrine of ideas, by requiring clear
definitions, 464. note.

Solutions, rhetorical, their nature and number, 359. et seq.
Sophisms, their nature and number, 352. et seq.

Sophistry, in praise or blame, 204.

Soul, its spirituality, 105. Denied by some modern philo-

sophers, 105. Asserted by Plato and Aristotle, 106.
Proved by the latter, ibid.

Species, intelligible, embodied in the sensible, 134.
Stesichorus, his fable of the man and the horse, 320.
Stewart, Mr. Dugald, his strictures on my new analysis
answered, 27. et seq. His objections to Aristotle's logic,
52. et seq.
Answered, 55. et seq. His doctrine of de-
monstration considered, 64. Of the soul, 108. et seq.
Character of his writings, 70.

Strength, bodily, what constitutes it, 180.

Style, its perspicuity, 368. How destroyed by verbosity,
378. The frigid and nauseous proceeds from four causes,
376. Its purity, on what dependent, 382. et seq. Con-
tinuous and periodic, 393. et seq. Rules for a good style,
396. Its urbanity and elegance, 399. Its animation,
energy, and enthusiasm, 405. et seq.

Sydenham, Dr., cited, 112. note.

Syllogism, the primary and essential form of reasoning, 54.
Abuse thereof, 131.

T

Territory, national, how its safety to be secured, 173.
Testimony, how assailed or upheld, 244.

Theodectes, the tragedian, 336. note.

Topics, the general and special, 166. et seq. The common,
contradistinguished from arguments, 361.

Torture, examination by, 247. Reasons against it, 248.
Tragedy, its nature and end, 476.

Twining, his translation of Aristotle's " Poetic,” 471. et seq.

U and V

Variety, why pleasant, 220.

Virtue, what, 200. et seq.

Uranius, a propagator of Aristotelism in Asia, 47.
Urbanity of style, what, 399. Its three sources, 400.

Utility, notions of, modified by different forms of govern-
ment, 197.