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The third cause of apparitions?

State the case recorded in the Philosophical Journal.
The fourth cause of apparitions?

What general remark is made in confirmation of this cause?
What proportion of the blood is sent immediately from the heart
into the brain?

In what way does nitrous oxide affect the brain?

What opinion do these facts seem to confirm ?

By what fact is it controverted?

40. 225. State the fact related in illustration of the fourth cause of appari

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1. 227. Meaning of the term insanity?

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What do we usually understand by it?
What is partial, and what is total insanity?

4. 228. What is remarked of disordered sensations?
State a case of a disordered sensation of touch.
The case of Mendelsohn?

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7. 229. The distinction between sensation and perception? When are our perceptions likely to be disordered? State facts on this subject.

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10. 230. What conviction is essential to a sound mind? What fact is related of the Rev. S. Browne?

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12. 231. What produces insanity of consciousness?

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State the case of the watchmaker.

14. 232. Is original suggestion or relative more frequently disordered? Why is the latter so frequently so?

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The most common form of alienated reason? and illustrate.

26. 237. Describe the case of Don Quixote.

27. 238. How do men of sensibility sometimes beteme mentally disordered '

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29. 239. Three kinds of insanity, or alienation of the power of belief? What is remarked of the first kind when the invy a v beliers L great? What of the second?

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Are these divisions strongly marked?

In what do they differ?

How is it ascertained that they differ in their nature?
Which comes first in order?

6, 241. What is essential to the action of the sensibilities?

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How is this shown?

If our intellectual powers were dormant, what would be the effect on the sensibilities?

To what is the activity of the sensibilities proportioned ?

10. 242. How are the sensibilities divided?

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By whom was the term pathematic introduced?

To what state of mind is it applicable?

13. 243. What different views do the natural and moral sensibilities appear to take of the objects in respect to which they are called into exercise?

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What would be the effect of obliterating from man's constitution his conscience?

In this case, by what would his movements be dictated?

What would be the center around which his motives of action would revolve?

What teaches him to act with reference to the glory of God? 18. 244. Which division of the sensibilities occupy the higher rank? Which are higher in our estimation, the instincts or the appetites? The appetites or the affections?

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What other remark is made of our moral sensibilities?

22. 245. Do brutes possess moral sensibilities?

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What do they possess in common with man?

What, then, is the ground of distinction between men and brutes 1

25. 246. How are the natural sensibilities divided?

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Which come first in the order of time and nature, the emotions of the desires?

How is this fact otherwise stated?

Show that this fact is necessarily so.

How are the moral sensibilities divided?

To what do the obligatory feelings correspond?

PART I-CLASS I.

CHAPTER I.

1. 948 Why can not a verbal explanation be given of the emotions? Why can not any thing simple be defined?

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How do we learn the nature of the emotions?

4. 215. The place of the emotions considered with reference to other men

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What is said of the desires?

What do we mean when we speak of any thing as pleasant to ar !
What is essential to a feeling of moral obligation?

On what are our desires founded?

On what our emotions?

10. 250. By what are our desires followed?

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By what our obligatory feelings?

How is it shown that our emotions are founded on our intellections?
Illustrate.

14 251. By what are emotions characterized?

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How do they differ from the desires and feelings of moral obliga tion?

What are some of the varieties of our emotions?

Why is it essential to understand the distinctions that exist in the sensibilities?

CHAPTER II.

1. 252. The two characteristics of the emotion of beauty?

2. 253. What objects do we call beautiful?

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What do we mean, then, when we say an object has beauty? 4. 254. How are beautiful objects distinguished from other objects? Why does the mind experience a pleasant emotion in view of cer tain objects?

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6. 255. How may the term beauty be regarded? and why?

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What are some of the occasions of the emotions of beauty?
What is remarked of the human countenance?

What does a mathematician regard as beautiful? a logician?
What, then, is the province of beauty?

11. 256. Are all objects equally fitted to cause the emotion of beauty?
What important inquiry does this suggest?

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13. 257. What must be taken for granted in answering this question? How do we know that we have a susceptibility to beauty? Have the emotions of beauty fixed causes or antecedents?

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Can the antecedents exist and not be followed by these emotions?
What is meant by the æsthetic power of objects?

18. 258. What figure is universally regarded as beautiful?

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What was Hogarth's line of beauty?

In what natural objects do we find this line?

1. 259. What two kinds of beauty are mentioned here?

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What other forms of beauty are mentioned, and what is said of them?

What does Mr. Alison say of the tripod?

What explanatory remark is made in connection with the foregoing statements, and how is it illustrated?

30. 262. What is said of the beauty of colors?

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By what considerations is this opinion supported?

What is remarked of infants?

What of savages?

What of the uneducated?

Who are most pleased with gaudy colors?

36. 263. What additional proof is given of the fact that colors are of them

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selves fitted to cause emotions of beauty?

What facts are mentioned of the early life of James Mitchell?

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What sounds are disagreeable?
What are entirely indifferent?
Quote Mr. Alison's remarks.

42. 265. How are musical sounds characterized?

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Are they intrinsically beautiful, or so from association only?
The first consideration that goes to prove this?

What is said of brutes in this connection?

The second consideration to prove that there is an intrinsic beauty in musical sounds?

The third consideration, etc.?

What fact is related of a Jesuit missionary?

43. 266. The fourth consideration?

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What is said of Caspar Hauser in this connection?

On what does the permanency of musical power depend?
What does this prove?

What other element of beauty is mentioned?

What motions are pleasing?

What remarks are made of ascending columns of smoke?

56. 269. What kinds of motion are agreeable?

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Why is long-continued swift motion disagreeable?
Why very slow motion?

What kinds of motion are the most agreeable?

CHAPTER III.

1. 270. What two positions on the subject of beauty are laid down in this section?

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The remark of Stewart on this subject?

Can association originate or create any thing?

To what is it compared?

5. 271. Is it possible for an object to become beautiful by association

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What invests with beauty the Rock of Plymouth?
Repeat the poetry of Rogers.

10. 273. Mention several instances of national associations.

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What is often the effect on the countenance of a single crime: 13. 274. With what are the sources of associated beauty coincident? !4. 275. Give a summary of what has been said on this subject. 1st, 2d, 3d 4th, 5th.

CHAPTER IV.

1. 276. What is remarked of emotions of sublimity?

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Illustrate the progression from the gentle to the sublime.

In what respect do emotions of sublimity differ om mose o beauty?

Why are they undefinable?

How do we, then, obtain a knowledge of them?
How do we measure the sublimity of an object?
What is the first source of sublimity mentioned ?
Quote the remarks of Stewart and of Washington Irving.

9. 79. Mention another source of sublimity

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Give the Scripture quotation.

15. 282. A fifth source? and illustrate.

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The remark of Coleridge?

17. 283. A sixth source? and illustrate.

18. 284. A seventh source? and illustrate,

19. Is the emotion in these instances to be ascribed to one cause only i 20. 285. How does it appear that these are objects originally sublime 1

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How is this proved?

How illustrated in the case of Sir William Jones? 23. 287. To what is a share of the emotion to be attributed? $1. How is this shown?

CHAPTER V.

I. 288. What is said of the emotions of the ludicrous?

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What modifies the pleasure we experience from them?

3 289 The origin of the feeling?

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Does the discovery of new relations in every case give rise to it 1
Mention several instances in which it does not.

What else is necessary to the production of these emotions?

7. 290. With what are they closely allied?

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9. 291. The first method which wit employs in exciting emotions of the u dicrous?

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What are such descriptions termed?

Is it morally right to attempt to burlesque what is truly great !
Repeat the examples from Hudibras.

13. 292. The second method which wit employs to excite emotions of the

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What are included in this division of wit?
Repeat an example of this kind?

19. 293. What subject closely borders on wit?

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Illustrate what you mean by humor and the humorous.
Are such feelings useless?

The reasons for such an opinion?

23. 294. Is ridicule the proper weapon to use against vice? In what cases is it allowable?

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What writers have treated of this subject in full?

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What are joy and delight?

What is gladness?

The opposite of these emotions?

The distinction between melancholy and sorrow
'The distinction between grief and sorrow?

How do grief and sorrow show themselves?

9. 297. What is surprise?

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