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Essays on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism; on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Utility of Classical Learning

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INTRODUCTION	12

All reaſoning terminates in firſt principles All evidence ulti 1	31

Of the evidence of External fenfe	37

Of the evidence of Memory	57

Of Reasoning from the Effect to the Caufe	63

Of Probable or Experimental Reasoning	76

Of faith in Teftimony	83

Conclufion of this chapter Further proof General	89

POSTSCRIPT	325

PART I	352

CHA P II	368

Poetry exhibits a fyftem of nature fomewhat different from	381

The fubject continued Of Poetical characters	398

Further Illuftrations Of Poetical arrangement	416

CHAP VI	433

How are the pleaſures we derive from Mufic to be	455

PART II	99

Of Natural Philofophers 1099	132

This doctrine rejected by Sceptical Philofophers	140

Of the Nonexistence of Matter	169

Of Liberty and Neceffity	191

CHA P III	239

PART III	243

Confequences of Metaphyfical Scepticiſm	314

Conjectures on fome peculiarities of National Muſic	475

CHA P VII	489

CHAP	576

Laughter feems to ariſe from the view of things incongruous	600

CHAP	618

CHA P III	654

CHA P IV	683

REMARKS ON THE UTILITY OF CLASSICAL LEARN	707

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Title	Essays on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism; on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Utility of Classical Learning
Author	James Beattie
Publisher	author, 1777
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	2 Jun 2011
Length	757 pages

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