Dissertations moral and critical

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Of Memory and Imagination.
• Introduction = 1
• of MEMORY.
• CHAP. Ⅰ.
• Difference between Memory and Imagination = 3
• CHAP. Ⅱ.
• Phenomena and Laws of Memory.
• Sect. 1. General account of this faculty Whether we have reason to think it is connected with the brain = 8
• Sect. 2. The subject continued. Laws of Memory. Importance of Attention = 13
• Sect. 3. The subject continued. Artificial Memory. Of penmanship, as connected with this subject = 21
• Sect. 4. Different appearances of Memory in different persons and in the same person at different times = 29
• CHAP. Ⅲ.
• Methods of improving Memory. Attention. Recollection. Writing. Conversation,&c. Directions for committing Discourses to memory. Whether Sermons should be recited form memory, or read = 38
• CHAP. Ⅳ.
• Remarks on the Memory of Brutes. Inferences = 60
• Of IMAGINATION.
• CHAP. Ⅰ.
• General account of Imagination = 72
• CHAP. Ⅱ.
• Of the Association of ideas.
• Sect. 1. Princip'es of Association. First, Resemblance. Secondly, Contrariety. Thirdly, Nearness of suuation. = 78
• Sect. 2. Fourthly, The Relation of cause and Effect. Superstisons arising from this and the preceding principle = 89
• Sect. 3. The same subject. Custom, an associating principle = 96
• Sect. 4. Origin of our ideas of Beauty, in COLOUR in FIGURE in ATTITUDE in MOTION, partly accounted for, from the influence of Custom, as an associating principle. Beauty of Countenance Standard of Beauty = 110
• Sect. 5. External Associations Recapitulation = 143
• CHAP. Ⅲ.
• Remarks on Genius = 146
• CHAP. Ⅳ.
• Of Taste, and its Improvement = 165
• CHAP. Ⅴ.
• The subject of Imagination resumed. Some directions for the regulation of it = 194
• Of DREAMING = 207
• The Theory of Language.
• PART Ⅰ.
• CHAP. Ⅰ.
• Man, the only animal capable of Speech. Speech, an art acquired by imitation. Natural Signs of human thought. Artificial signs of thought : first, Visible ; secondly, Audible = 233
• CHAP. Ⅱ.
• Of the organs of Speech, and the nature and powers of the human Voice. Of Articulation. Vowel and Consonant Sounds their formation, and various classes. Thirty-two of thirty-three elementary founds in the English tongue = 246
• CHAP. Ⅲ.
• The Alphabet imperfect, and Spelling irregular ; but neither ought to be altered : Pronunciation cannot be the standard of Orthography. Of teaching the Deaf to speak. Of diphthongs, Syllables, Words. Of long and short words = 260
• CHAP. Ⅳ.
• Of Emphasis, 1. Rhetorical. 2. Syllabick, which is either Long-vowelled, or Short-vowelled. Of the Numbers or Measures of English Poetry, as depending on Emphalis ; their nature, and varieties = 274
• CHAP. Ⅴ.
• Of Accent. Its nature and ufe. Standard of Pronunciation = 293
• CHAP. Ⅵ.
• Abfurdity of the Epicurean doctrine of the origin of language : men must have spoken in all ages ; the first man, by inspiration. The variey of Origianal tongues, a proof of the Scripture history of Babel. All languages have some things in common ; which
• it is the business of Universal Grammar to explain = 300
• CHAP. Ⅶ.
• Of the Art of Writing ; its importance and origin. Different forts of it practised by different nations. A short history of Printing = 309
• PART Ⅱ.
• Of Universal Grammar.
• Introduction = 321
• CHAP. Ⅰ.
• Of NOUNS.
• Sect. 1. Of nouns Primary, or substantives. Of Number and Gender : Which (taking these words in the Grammatical sense) depend, partly upon the nature of things, and partly upon custom and arbitrary rule = 323
• Sect. 2. The nature and use of Nouns Secondary, or Pronouns = 337
• CHAP. Ⅱ.
• Of ATTRIBUTIVES.
• Sect. 1. Of attributives Adjectives, Participles, Verbs. Their distinguishing characters. Comparison of Adjectives = 347
• Sect. 2. The subject of Attributives continued. Of Verbs : their general nature investigated, and expressed in a definition. Conjectures in regard to the Greek and Latin inflections = 363
• Sect. 3. The subject continued. Of the Times on Tenses of verbs. Tenses, 1. Definite in time : 2. Indefinite in : time, or Aorist : 3. Complete in respect of action, or Perfect : 4. Incomplete, or Imperfect : 5. Compound, uniting two or more times in on
• e : 6. Simple, expressive of one time only. Remarks = 380
• Sect. 4. The subject continued. Of the Modes, or Moods, of verbs. Gerunds and Supines. Speeies of verbs = 414
• Sect. 5. The Subject continued. Further remarks on the Participle = 433
• Sect. 6. The subject of Attributives continued. Of Adverbs = 442
• CHAP. Ⅲ.
• Of INTERJECTIONS = 451
• CHAP. Ⅳ.
• Of Connectives and Articles = 456
• Sect. 1. Of Connectives. 1. Of Prepositions. Remarks on the Cases of Nouns. 2. Of conjunctions = 457
• Sect. 2. Of the Article = 485
• On Fable and Romance = 505
• On the Attachments of Kindred = 575
• Illustrations on Sublimity = 605