the hearts of his fubjects. Succefs will crown the undertaking, and endear GEORGE THE THIRD to our latest posterity.

THE most elevated and most refined pleasure of human nature, is enjoy'd by a virtuous prince governing a virtuous people; and that, by perfecting the great fyftem of education, your Majefty may very long enjoy this pleasure, is the ardent with of

Your Majesty's

Devoted Subject,

HENRY HOME.

CONTENTS.

Vol. Pág.

Introduction,

Ch. 1. Perceptions and ideas in a

train,

Ch. 2. Emotions and paffions,

Ch. 3. Beauty,

Ch. 4. Grandeur and fublimity,

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Ch. 7. Rifible objects,

Ch. 8. Refemblance and contraft,

Ch. 9. Uniformity and variety,

Ch. 10. Congruity and propriety,

Ch. 11. Dignity and meanness,

Ch. 12. Ridicule,

Ch. 13. Wit,

Ch. 14. Cuftom and habit,

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Ch. 15. External figns of emotions

and paffions,

Ch. 16. Sentiments,

Ch. 17. Language of paffion,

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b

Ch. 18.

Ch. 18. Beauty of language,
Ch. 19. Comparisons,

Ch. 20. Figures,

Vol. Pag.

Ch. 21. Narration and defcription, 3

Ch. 22. Epic and dramatic compo- .

fitions,

Ch. 23. The three unities,

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169

3 218

3 259

Ch. 24. Gardening and architecture, 3 294

Ch. 25. Standard of taste,

Appendix,

3 351

3 375

In defcribing the scale of founds made in
pronouncing the five vowels, vol. 2. p. 239.
it ought to have been mentioned, that the
letter i must be pronounced as in the word
intereft, and other words beginning with
the fyllable in; the letter e as in perfuafion;
and the letter u as in number.

The reference intended, vol. 2. p. 419.
is to p. 404. of the same volume.

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HE five fenfes agree in the following particular, that nothing external is perceived till it first make an impreffion upon the organ of fenfe; the im preffion, for example, made upon the hand by a ftone, upon the palate by fugar, and upon the noftrils by a rofe. But there is a difference as to our consciousness of that impreffion. In touching, tafting, and fmelling, we are confcious of the impreffion. Not fo in feeing and hearing. When I behold a tree, I am not fenfible of the impreffion made upon my eye; nor of the impreffion made upon my ear, when I liften to a fong *. This difference in the manner of perception, diftinguishes remarkably hearing and feeing from the other fenses; and diftinguishes ftill more remarkably the feelings of the former from those of the latter. A feeling pleafant or painful cannot exist but in the mind; and yet be

* See the Appendix, § 13.

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