THE

WORKS

OF THE

BRITISH POETS.

WITH

LIVES OF THE AUTHORS,

BY

EZEKIEL SANFORD.

VOL. IV.

DAVIES, &c.

PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY MITCHELL, AMES, AND WHITE.

William Brown, Printer.

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit :

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Preface,

Dedication to Queen Elizabeth,

Introduction,

Of the Soul of Man, and the Immortality thereof,

Section I. That the soul is a thing subsisting by itself with.

out the body,

II. That the Soul is more than a Perfection or Re-

flection of the Sense,
III. That the Soul is more than the Temperature of

the Humours of the Body,

IV. That the Soul is a Spirit,

V. Erroneus opinions of the Creation of Souls,

VL. That the Soul is not Ex Traduce,

VII. Reasons drawn from Nature,

VIII. Reasons from Divinity,

IX. Why the Soul is united to the Body,

X. In what manner the Soul is united to the Body,

XI. How the Soul exercises her Powers in the Body,

XII. The Vegetative Power of the Soul,

XIII. The Power of Sense,

XIV. Seeing,

XV, Hearing,

XVI. Taste,

XVII. Smelling,

XVIII. Feeling,

XIX. Imagination, or Common Sense,

XX. Fantasy,

XXI. Sensitive Memory,

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Section XXII. The Passion of the Sense,

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XXIII, Local Motion,

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XXIV. The Intellectual Powers of the Soul,

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XXV. Wit, Reason, Understanding, Opinion, Judg.

ment, Wisdom,

ib.

XXVI. Innate Ideas in the Soul,

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XXVII. The Power of Will, and Relation between

the Wit and Will,

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XXVIII. The Intellectual Memory,

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XXIX. The Dependency of the Soul's Faculties

upon each other,

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xxx. That the Soul is immortal, proved by several

Reasons,

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1. Drawn from the Desire of Knowledge,

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2. Drawn from the Notion of the Soul,

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3. From Contempt of Death in the better sort

of Spirits,

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4. From the fear of death in the wicked Souls, 80

5. From the general desire of Immortality, 81

6. From the very doub: and disputation of Im.

mortality,

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XXXI. The Soul cannot be destroyed,

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XXXII. Objections against the Immortality of the

Soul, with their respective Answers,

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Obj. 1. Ans.

ib.
Obj. 2. Ans.

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Obj. 3. Ans.

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Obj. 4. Ans.

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Obj. 5. Ans.

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XXXIII. Three kinds of Life, answerable to the

three Powers of the Soul,

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XXXIV. The Conclusion,

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TO ENVY.

Orchestra; or, a Poem expressing the Antiquity and Excel.

lency of Dancing,

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