his utmost industry, to clear this edition from all the defects of the former, fo far as suggested by others, or discovered by himself. In a work containing many particulars, both new and abstruse, it was difficult to express every article with fufficient perfpicuity; and, after all the pains bestowed, there remained certain paffages which are generally thought obfcure. The author, giving an attentive ear to every cenfure of that kind, has, in the prefent edition, renewed his efforts to correct every defect; and he would gladly hope that he has not been altogether unsuccessful. The truth is, that a writer, who must be poffeffed of the thought before he can put it into words, is but ill qualified to judge whether the expreffion be fufficiently clear to others: in that particular, he cannot avoid the taking on him to judge for the reader, who can much better judge for himself. June 1763. CONTENTS. 6. Caufes of the Paffions of Fear 7. Emotions caufed by Fiction, 2. Emotions and Paffions as pleasant and painful, agreeable and difagreeable. -Modification of thefe Qualities, 105 4. Coexiftent Emotions and Paffions, 5. Influence of Paffion with refpect to our Perceptions, Opinions, and Belief, 152 Appendix. Methods that Nature hath afforded for computing time and 6. Refemblance of Emotions to their Cau- Final Caufes of the more frequent VOLUME II. 18. Beauty of Language, Sect. 2. Beauty of Language with respect to 3. Beauty of Language from a refem- cation, 4. Verification, 3 18 83 98 |