The Works of James Harris, Esq

J. Vincent, 1841 - Philosophy, Modern - 584 pages

A DISCOURSE ON MUSIC PAINTING AND POETRY	25

On the Subjects which Poetry imitates but imitates only through	32

On Music considered not as an Imitation but as deriving its Efficacy	39

32	81

333	90

39	108

BOOK I	117

Concerning the several Species of those smallest Parts	123

Concerning When and WhereConcerning Time and Place and their	335

Concerning Position or SituationWhat it is and how deduced	342

Concerning Habit or rather the being habitedIts Descriptionits	351

Concerning Motion NotphysicalThis means Metaphysical and	367

ConclusionUtilities deducible from the Theory of these Arrange	381

PART I	388

Modern Critics of the Explanatory kind commenting Modern Writers	394

Criticism may have been abusedYet defended as of the last Import	397

Concerning Substantives of the Secondary Order	135

Concerning Attributives and first concerning Verbs	145

Concerning Modes	158

Concerning Verbs as to their Species and other remaining Properties	167

Concerning Attributives of the Secondary Order	173

Concerning Definitives	179

Concerning Connectives and first those called Conjunctions	185

Concerning those other Connectives called Prepositions	196

IntroductionDivision of the Subject into its principal Parts	205

Upon the Form or peculiar Character of Language	211

Concerning general or universal Ideas	217

Subordination of IntelligenceDifference of Ideas both in particular	235

IntroductionScope or End of the Inquirybegins from the Arrange	247

A Method of Arrangement proposedrejected and whyanother	255

Concerning Matteran imperfect Description of itits Nature	267

Concerning FormAn imperfect Description of itPrimary Forms	273

Concerning the Properties of Substance attributed to it in the Peripa	288

Concerning Quantityits two Speciestheir CharactersTime	302

Concerning Relativestheir SourceRelatives apparentrealtheir	311

Concerning Action and PassionAction its five Speciesthose	323

Numerous Compositionderived from Quantity Syllabicanciently	405

Quantity Verbal in Englisha few Feet pure and agreeable to Syllabic	411

Concerning Whole and Parts as essential to the constituting of a legi	420

Concerning Dramatic Mannerswhat constitutes themManners	434

Rank and Precedence of the constitutive parts of the DramaRemarks	445

436	451

Design of the wholeLimits and Extent of the Middle AgeThree	454

Account of Byzantine Scholars continuedSuidasJohn Stobæus or	468

Concerning the second Class of Geniuses during the Middle Age	478

Arabian Poetry and Works of InventionFacts relative to their Man	484

439	487

Arabians favoured Medicine and AstrologyFacts relative to these	492

Schoolmentheir Rise and Charactertheir Titles of HonourRemarks	507

Concerning the Poetry of the latter Latins or Western Europeans	515

Paul the Venetian and Sir John Mandeville great TravellersSir	521

Superior Literature and Knowledge both of the Greek and Latin	529

APPENDIX	540

PART IV	546

394	576

448	579

Title	The Works of James Harris, Esq
Author	James Harris
Editor	James Harris Earl of Malmesbury
Publisher	J. Vincent, 1841
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	Jul 11, 2008
Length	584 pages

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