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CHAPTER VI.
OF PERCEPTION.
I. Perception the first simple idea of Reflection,
II. Of the Process of Nature in Perception,
III. Perceptions are of two kinds,
IV. Perception the inlet to Knowledge,
CHAPTER VII.
OF RETENTION.
I. Contemplation,
II. Memory,
III. Attention, Repetition, Pleasure and Pain, fix Ideas,
IV. Two defects in the Memory, Oblivion and Slowness,
V. Of the Improvements of Memory,
CHAPTER VIII.
OF DISCERNING, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF the mind.
I. No Knowledge without Discernment,
II. Difference between Wit and Judgment,
III. Clearness alone hinders confusion,
IV. Of Abstraction,
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CHAPTER XII.
I. Of Relation,
II. Of Cause and Effect, and other relations,
OF WORDS, OR LANGUAGE IN GENERAL.
I. Man fitted to form articulate sounds,
OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF WORDS.
I. Words are sensible signs necessary for communication,
II. Words are the sensible signs of his Ideas who uses them,
III. The learned and unlearned use the words they speak
all alike,
IV. Words often secretly referred, First to the Ideas in
other men's Minds,
V. Secondly, to the reality of things,
VI. Words by use readily excite ideas,
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VII. Words often used without signification,
VIII. Their signification perfectly arbitrary,
CHAPTER XVII.
OF PARTICLES.
I. Particles connect parts, or whole sentences together,
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II. In them consists the clearness and beauty of a good style,
III. The insufficiency of Dictionaries in explaining particles, 69
IV. Instance in But,
III. Therewith to convey the knowledge of things,
IV. How men's words fail in all these,
CONSEQUENTIÆ.
Religion the best and only support in cases of Real
The Fruits of Industry and Innocence,
Agrippina returning to Rome with the Ashes of
her dead Lord, Germanicus,
The Pleasures of Snow,
Comparative view of the rising and declining gene-
rations of America,
Blair, 103
Usher, 104
Wirt, 105
The Ephemera an Emblem of Human Life,
The Handsome and Deformed Leg,
Some account of Rip Van Winkle,
Rural Life in England,
Rural Occupation,
English Scenery,
The Broken-hearted Woman,
The Widow and her Son,
Rural Funerals,
Offerings of Nature to the dead,
On the Necessity of Writing a good hand,
Surprising instance of Gratitude in a Lion,
Barker, 182
Melmoth, 183 Dr. Knox, 184
Dr. Enfield, 185
Franklin, 186
Personal Beauty produced by Moral Sentiment,
A good conscience the best security against calumny, &c.
Humility to be learned from the study of Physics,
The Operations of Nature subservient to each other,
Distinguishing and Sublime Characteristics of Nature,"
Human Happiness the result of Virtue,
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Carisbrooke Castle,
Society in Edinburgh,
Solon and Publicola compared,
Plutarch, 278
The Pernicious effects of unnecessary drinking,-C. Sprague,
Extract from Webster's Discourse on Adams and Jefferson,
From the same continued,
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Another from the same,
Marshall's Speech on the Death of Washington,
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Extract from the Speech of Mr. Wirt on the Trial of A. Burr, 317
Mr. Hopkinson on the Impeachment of Judge Chase,
Extract from Demosthenes 1st Oration against Philip,
Do. from his second Olynthiac Oration,
Do. from Cicero's 1st Oration against Catiline,
Do. from Cicero's 2d Oration against Catiline,
Do. from Cicero's 3d Oration against Catiline,