AN ANALYTICAL INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF TASTE. BY RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT. THE THIRD EDITION, Quid placet aut odio est, quod non mutabile credas? London: Printed by Luke Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, FOR T. PAYNE, MEWS-GATE; AND J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET, CONTENTS. 7. Applied to intellectual as well as sensible Qualities. 9. As to the Sexes in Mankind. 10. Mr. Hume's Opinion considered. r2. Double Meaning of the word Taste. CHAP. I. OF THE SENSE OF TASTE. 7. & 8. Vitiated and morbid Palates. 9. Their Pleasures and Habits. 10. Why fixed and indispensable. CHAP. II. OF SMELL. 4. Sir Joshua Reynolds's Position confirmed. 6. External Stimuli in Plants. 7. Sensation of Plants, organic Sensations in general. 13. Various Pleasures of Cessation or inverted Action. 1. Organs and Modes of Action. 3. Its Nature and Causes. 4. Its Effects, Modes, and Degrees of Irritation. 11 & 12. Smoothness, Sharpness, and Brilliancy in 14. In Buildings, Gardens, Pieces of Water, &c. |