A philosophical treatise on the passions ... / by T. Cogan.

  • Thomas Cogan
Date:
1802
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Credit: A philosophical treatise on the passions ... / by T. Cogan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fenfations of anger, jealoufy, envy, See. are inti- mately connected with the carnal appetites of matu- rer age. Whatever is therefore beyond the mere inflinctive appetite, becomes the province of the mind; and the influence which various cravings of nature have upon its ideas and conceptions, give rife to mental affections and paflions. The fubject of the prefent difeuffion obvioufly relates to thefe, without requiring particular attention to the exifling caufe. SECTION II. Plans of Arrangement examined. QO numerous and multifarious are the Paflions, ^ Affections, and Emotions, in their connections and ramifications, that it is difficult to propofe a plan of Arrangement, that fhall be in every refpect un- exceptionable. By preferring one method, we may be deprived of fome advantages attending another ; and in all it may be neceflary to anticipate many things, which a rigid attention to order could not poflibly permit. Some Writers on the Paflions, have placed them in contrail to each other, as hope and
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