OF

NATURE.

BY

JAS.-HENRY-BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE.

.... MISERIS SUCCURRERE DISCO.

TRANSLATED BY

HENRY HUNTER, D. D.

LATE MINISTER OF THE SCOTS CHURCH, LONDON - WALL

FIFTH EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN; J. WALKER; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE; C. LAW; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; B. CROSBY AND CO.; J. RICHARDSON;

AND J. M. RICHARDSON.

CONTENTS.

VOL. III.

STUDY XII. Of some Moral Laws of Nature

Weakness of Reason, of Feeling; Proofs of the

Divinity, and of the Immortality of the Soul

from Feeling

Of Physical Sensations

Of the Sense of Tasting

Of the Sense of Smelling

Of the Sense of Seeing

Of the Sense of Hearing

Of the sense of Touching

Of the Sentiments of the Soul, and, first,

Of mental Affections

Of the Sentiment of Innocence

Of Pity

Of the Love of Country

Of the Sentiment of Admiration

Of the Marvellous

The Pleasure of Mystery

The Pleasure of Ignorance

Of the Sentiment of Melancholy

The Pleasure of Ruin

The Pleasure of Tombs

Ruins of Nature

The Pleasure of Solitude

Of the Sentiment of Love....

Of some other Sentiments of Deity, and, among

others, of that of Virtues

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