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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    and occasionally to recapitulate the'charac- teristics of each, as far as they relate to the subject immediately before us. It is hoped that these repetitions will not appear unne- cessary, when it is recollected that, in sub- jects of such intricacy and importance, pers- picuity is of the first moment; and that it is preferable to olfend against brevity, than to withhold a single fact which may be appli- cable to some useful purpose. Powers and principles of which the operations are per- petual and extensive, cannot be rendered too conspicuous, or be called to our recollec- tiont too frequently. As the present work is professedly founded upon the principles investigated in the preceding, it may in some respects be considered as a practical com- ment upon them; and this will frequently demand particular references. For as in the study of physiology, pathology, and thera- peutics, an application is constantly made of the facts discovered in a course of anatoiny; thus disquisitions on the right conduct of b '