An ethical treatise on the passions : founded on the principles investigated in the Philosophical treatise / by T. Cogan.

  • Cogan, T. (Thomas), 1736-1818.
Date:
1807-1810
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    ingits acceptance. He therefore directed his chief attention to investigations of a Philo- sophical nature ; carefully avoiding to treat of Morals in any other point of view, than as subjects of Philosophical Discussion ; that the volume might not be considered as in- complete or imperfect, should public neg- lect, or any other cause, forbid the prose- cution of the subject. By the favorable reception of the introductory volume, he feels himself encouraged to resume the pen, in the hope of completing his plan. His present attempt appears to him still more important than the preceding: he has certainly found it much more arduous; so arduous that he has frequently been induced to relinquish the pursuit, through despair of surmounting its many diflficulties. The present subject has not only a place among the most copious and extensive that could have been chosen, it is also the most com- plex. The investigator is in the utmost danger of being lost in the multitude of his a3