CONTENTS. 



can we have any Love for Science or the Fine Arts — There is a Senfe of Beauty 

 even in our Crimes, but a mil>aken one. — It is fo univerfal, that it direifls Men iu 

 the praftice of the moft trifling things, fuch as Drefs.— This proved in the example 

 of Julius Cxlar. — It is to be oblerved in a certain degree, even in fome Brute Ani- 

 mals, fuch as the Horfe The Author's apology for laying fo much upon the fub- 



je6t of the Beautiful in this Volume, when he had faid fo much of it iu a preceding. 



It is a fu'ij £t treated of by no Modern Phiiofopher, except Mr Payley j wh'jreas 



the Antient Philofophy is full of it, — particularly that of the Stoics. p. 119. 



CHAP. viir. 



After Virtue, Morals in general to be confidered. — Upon them depends the rlappinefs 

 of Civil bociety — I he Greeks confidered Mtjrals and Politics as fo clofeiy connedl- 

 ed, that ihcy beftowed upon both the term Political^ as both applied to Political Socie- 

 fy^ Pythagoras, the firlt who inquired concerning Virtue. — he explained it by num- 

 bers, Socrates, more fuccefsful in his inquiries after Virtue, — He held all Virtue to 



be Science. — His Syftem alio defective. — He made it a Theoretical Science j whereas 

 it is a Pradtical Art. — Plato made great improvements upon his Mafler Socrates ; — 

 but erred by mixing Metaphyfics with Morals. — Other defe(fts in Plato's DofVrme of 



Morals. Ariftotlc's excellence in this branch of Philoiophy. — Three works of his 



upon this fubje<ft. — Our Faculties, Difpofitions, and Habits, there explained. — He di- 

 vides our Mind into two parts, the Rational and the Irrational. — The Irrational com- 

 prehends both the Anmial and Vegetable Minds. — Subdivifion of the Rational Into the 

 Scitntifc and Logijlic. — Of :rga5j<p5«-«j, a Deliberation — «§!^<;, or Defire — and Tr^x^ti, or 

 PraB'.ce — Ariftotle's definition of Firtiie, founded on our perception of the Beattti' 

 <uL — The particular Virtues defined and explained by him moll: accurately — Virtue, 

 a middle betwixt two extremes of Excefs and Defed, — all Virtues, according to him, 

 truly Habits^ — and therefore called Ethical. — A fourth work upon Morals by .'irifto- 

 tle De Virtiitibus et Viiiis. — ihis a Summary of the three other worki. — Praifc of 

 his works upon Morals — Many nice diftindtions therein made. — Obfervations upon 

 Arillotle's Doctrine of Morals. ' p. 140. 



CHAP. IX. 



Continuation of the Eulogium of Arilfotle. — Many Philofophers before him — but he 

 firll gave a form 10 Phiiofopi.y, ar.d reduced it to Jive heads^ Logic ^Io'•alS, Politics, 

 Phyfics, and Metaphyiks. — lj)gic prepares the Human Intelleft f.^r tultiva'j.j^ the 

 Gibers, and is therefore called ;<.n Organic Art. — It analyfcs the fubjedts upon which 

 intclle<ft operates. This anlylis fomrared with that of thematte.' o Langu gt- in- 

 to E!en-;ental Sounds, the form of Language into parts of fneech, and Mufic into the 



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