Volume 1

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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    tion of immortality. t value which. this distinguished author placed upon exist- to be rapidly passing away. His very mteresting letter upon the death of Mrs. Posen, bears every mark of the lost finally, irrevocably lost!” He adds, ‘*P will agree dimes, avery comfortable doctrine. 272 Mr. Adam Smith, in the account given of Mr. Hume this philosopher manifested in the prospect of his disso- lution, and: he adduces a playfulness of expression as an evidence of: it: But a moment of) vivacity, upon the the heart, or discover its feelings in the hours of solitude. He has confessed, in the: mostexplicit terms, that his passage in his treatise on human nature. ‘lam affrighied and confounded with that forlorn solitude in which Iam placedby my ‘philosophy: When [ look abroad, t foresee} on every side, dispute, contradiction and distrac- tion. «When T turn my eye inward, I find nothing but + See a very interesting account of this celebrated charac. monthly magazine for July, 1797. ' *See Letter 184,.