The Description of the Passions, toge-

ther with a general Division of them

into three Ranks,

SECT. III.

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A farther Account of the natural Paf-

fions, in fome Remarks concerning

them,

SECT. IV.

Of Admiration or Wonder,

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SECT. VIII.

Complacence and Displacence,

SECT. IX.

Defire and Averfion,

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SECT. Χ.

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The CONTENTS. xiii

SECT. XIII.

Several Things that dispose to diffe-

rent Paffions,

SECT. XIV.

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Of the Regulation and Government of

the Passions, wherein it confifts, 88

SECT. XVI.

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Preservatives against particular evil

Passions, and the immoderate Exer-

cife of lawful ones, namely,

SECT. XVIII.

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Rules to fubdue Pride and Scorn,

SECT. ΧΙΧ.

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Rules to prevent or fupprefs Malice

and Envy,

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Rules to guard against immoderate

Sorrow, and to relieve the Soul

that is under the Power of it,

SECT. XXIII.

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Rules to govern our Anger, and to

prevent the finful Effect of it,

namely, Revenge,

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Some universal Directions, both Mo-

ral and Divine, which relate to

all the Paffions, and the Regula-

tion of them,

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THE

THE

DOCTRINE

OF THE

PASSIONS

EXPLAINED and IMPROVED.

SECT. Ι.

The various Senses of the Word.

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*HE Word Paffion, in the abstracted and logical Sense of it, denotes the receiving of the Action of fome Agent: As if an Archer bend his Bow, the Archer is the Agent; the Bow is the Patient; the bending, as it comes from the Archer, is the

Action;