Dissertations Moral and Critical: On Memory and Imagination, on Dreaming, the Theory of Language, on Fable and Romance, on the Attachments of Kindred, Illustrations on Sublimity (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Dissertations Moral and Critical: On Memory and Imagination, on Dreaming, the Theory of Language, on Fable and Romance, on the Attachments of Kindred, Illustrations on Sublimity

The Reader will be difappointed, if he expect to find in this book any nice metaphyfical theories, or other matters of doubtful difputation. Such things the Author is not unacquainted with but they fuit not his ideas of Moral Teaching; and he has laid them afide long ago. His aim is, to inure young minds to habits of attentive obfervation to guard them againf'r the influence of bad principles and to fet before them fuch Views of nature, and fuch plain and piaetical truths, as may at once improve the heart and the undeif'tanding, and amufe and elevate the fancy.

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