THE PREFACE

pp vii-xii

Contents

pp xiii-xvi

PART I

LECT. I - THE INTRODUCTION, and the DISTRIBUTION of the Subject

pp 1-7

LECT. II - Of the Nature and Use of TOPICS

pp 8-13

LECT. III - Of UNIVERSAL TOPICS

pp 14-22

LECT. IV - Of particular TOPICS; and Objections to the Use of TOPICS answered

pp 23-30

LECT. V - Of AMPLIFICATION

pp 31-38

PART II

LECT. VI - Of METHOD in Narrative Discourses

pp 39-48

LECT. VII - Of METHOD in Argumentative Discourses; of ANALYSIS and SYNTHESIS; and of GEOMETRICAL DEMONSTRATION

pp 49-56

LECT. VIII - Of the several Parts of a proper DEMONSTRATION

pp 57-65

LECT. IX - Of the ANALYTIC METHOD. Of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, and Hutcheson's Moral Philosophy

pp 66-72

LECT. X - Of the METHOD of Mr. Hume's Inquiry into the Principles of Morals, Hartley's Observations on Man, Harris's Hermes, that of Sermons, and of Miscellaneous Writings

pp 73-84

PART III

LECT. XI - Of TASTE, and the Nature of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

pp 85-94

LECT. XII - The Division of this Part of the Work into what affects the PASSIONS, JUDGMENT, and IMAGINATION

pp 95-105

LECT. XIII - Of the Tendency of strong Emotions to produce BELIEF, and the transferring of Passions from one Object to another

pp 106-115

LECT. XIV - Of the Influence of the Passions on each other, and other Circumstances relating to strong Emotions of Mind

pp 116-126

LECT. XV - Of Forms of Address adapted to gain BELIEF; and, first, of those that imply PRESENT THOUGHT, and an UNPREMEDITATED EXPRESSION

pp 127-136

LECT. XVI - Of OBJECTIONS, SUPPRESSION of what might be said, and Marks of CANDOUR

pp 137-147

LECT. XVII - Of the PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION in general, and of the Standard of GOOD TASTE

pp 148-161

LECT. XVIII - A general Account of the Pleasure we receive from Objects that occasion a moderate Exertion of our Faculties

pp 162-173

LECT. XIX - Of NOVELTY

pp 174-180

LECT. XX - Of the SUBLIME

pp 181-195

LECT. XXI - Of the Pleasure we receive from Uniformity, and Variety; and first of Comparisons

pp 196-215

LECT. XXII - Of the Nature of METAPHORS

pp 216-223

LECT. XXIII - Rules for the Use of METAPHORS; and of ALLEGORIES

pp 224-234

LECT. XXIV - Of CONTRAST in general, and particularly of Wit, the risible, and the ridiculous

pp 235-251