plying government as liberally, if you had not stepped in and hindered them from contributing, by interrupting the channel in which their liberality flowed with fo ftrong a course; by attempting to take, instead of being fatisfied to receive? Sir William Temple fays, that Holland has loaded itself with ten times the impofitions which it revolted from Spain, rather than fubmit to. He fays true. Tyranny is a poor provider.. It knows neither how to accumulate, nor how to extract. I charge therefore to this new and unfortunate system the lofs not only of peace, of union, and of commerce, but even of revenue, which its friends are contending for.-It is morally certain, that we have loft at least a million of free grants. fince the peace. I think we have loft a great deal more; and that those who look for a revenue from the provinces, never could have pursued, even in that light, a course more directly repugnant to their purposes. Now, Sir, I truft I have fhewn, firft on that narrow ground which the honourable gentleman measured, that you are like to lofe nothing by complying with the motion, except what you have loft already. I have fhewn afterwards, that in time of peace you flourished in commerce, and when war required it, had sufficient aid from the colonies, while you purfued your antient policy; that you threw every thing into confufion when you made the ftamp act; and that you restored every thing to peace and order when you repealed it.. I have fhewn that the revival of the fyftem of taxation has produced the very worst effects; and that the partial repeal has produced, not partial good, but univerfa! evil. Let thefe confiderations, founded on facts, not one of which can be denied, bring us back to our reafon by the road of our experience. I cannot, as I have faid, anfwer for mixed measures; but furely this mixture of lenity would give the whole a better I chance VIII. Of the Paffions which belong to Society IX. The final caufe of the difference between the SECT. PART II. I. Of the Paffion caused by the Sublime II. Terror III. Obfcurity IV. Of the difference between Clearnefs and Ob fcurity with regard to the Paffions - 120 121 122 [IV.] The fame fubject continued V. Power II. Proportion not the cause of Beauty in Vegetables 156 Human Species V. Proportion further confidered 2 SECT. VI. Fitness not the cause of Beauty VII. The real effects of Fitness VIII. The Recapitulation IX. Perfection not the cause of Beauty X. How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to the qualities of the mind Page - 170 173 175 176 XI. How far the idea of Beauty may be applied to virtue 178 I. Of the efficient caufe of the Sublime and Beautiful 197 182 184 185 186 ibid. 187 188 ibid. 189 ibid. 191 193 194 203 VI. How Pain can be a caufe of Delight VII. Exercife neceffary for the finer Organs IX. Why visual objects of great dimenfions are Sublime ibid. 208 XI. The XIII. The effects of fucceffion in visual objects explained 211 XIV. Locke's opinion concerning Darkness considered XVI. Why Darkness is terrible XVII. The effects of Blacknefs XVIII. The effects of Blackness moderated XIX. The phyfical cause of Love XX. Why Smoothnefs is Beautiful 213 215 216 218 220 221 222 PART V. 1. Of Words II. The common effect of Poetry, not by raising 235 236 238 241 246 247 PREFACE. |