ANALYTICAL INQUIRY

INTO THE

PRINCIPLES OF TASTE.

BY RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT.

Quid placet aut odio est, quod non mutabile credas ?
τοιος γαρ νοος εστιν επιχθονίων ανθρωπων,
διον επ' ημας αγῃσι πατης ανδρών τε θεώντε.

London:

PRINTED FOR T. PAYNE, MEWS GATE; AND J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET;

BY G. MERCIER AND CO. NORTHUMBERLAND-COURT, STRAND.

1805.

701 Killa

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION, containing a Sceptical View of the

Subject.

1. In its Principles.

2. In Building, Furniture, Gardening, and Dress.

3. In imitative Art.

4. In Style,

5. In the Productions of Nature.

6. Of the Word Beauty.

7. Applied to intellectual as well as sensible Qualities.

8. Variations in its Meaning.

9. As to the Sexes in Mankind.

10. Mr. Hume's Opinion considered.

11. Sexual Tastes of Brutes.

12. Double meaning of the Word Taste.

PART I. OF SENSATION

CHAP. I. OF THE SENSE OF TASTE.

1. Its Organs.

2. Primary or simple Sensation.

3. Variation.

4. Irritation.

5. In different Individuals.

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6. Mixed Flavours.

7 and 8. Vitiated and morbid Palates.

9. Their Pleasures and Habits.

10. Why fixed and indispensable.

11. Intoxicating Qualities.

CHAP. II. OF SMELL.

1. Its Organs and their Modes of Action.

2. Connected with mental Sympathies in Brutes.

3. In Dogs.

4. In Oxen.

5. Mr. Burke's Opinion considered,

6. Sexual Sympathies of Brutes.

CHAP. III. OF TOUCH,

1. Its Modes and Limits-Smoothness.

2. Sexual Sympathies-Irritation.

3. Titillation.

4. Sir Joshua Reynolds's Position confirmed,

5. Internal Stimuli.

6. External Stimuli in Plants,

7. Sensation of Plants, organic Sensations in general.

8. Have no Resemblance to Objects or Ideas. Evi-

dence of Sense.

9. Ideas according to Plato.

10. Scepticism,

11. Its Origin.

12. Inverted Action of the Nerves. Cessation.

13. Various Pleasures of Cessation or inverted Action.

CHAP. IV. OF HEARING.

1. Organs and Modes of Action.

2. Sound-how conveyed.

S. Its Nature and Causes.

4. Its Effects, Modes, and Degrees of Irritation.

5. Simple and mixed Tones.

6. Connected with Mental Sympathies in Animals.

7. In Mankind.