Young's Night Thoughts: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory NotesYoung, Edward
Philosophy
Young's Night Thoughts: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
Young, Edward
Didactic poetry, English; English poetry
In the Sixth Night arguments were drawn, from Nature, in proof of
Immortality: here, others are drawn from Man: from his Discontent, ver.
29; from his Passions and Powers, 63; from the gradual growth of Reason,
81; from his fear of Death, 86; from the nature of Hope, 104; and of
Virtue, 159, &c.; from Knowledge and Love, as being the most essential
properties of the soul, 253; from the order of Creation, 290, &c.; from
the nature of Ambition, 337, &c.; Avarice, 460; Pleasure, 477. A
digression on the grandeur of the Passions, 521. Immortality alone
renders our present state intelligible, 545. An objection from the
Stoics' disbelief of immortality answered, 585. Endless questions
unresolvable, but on the supposition of our immortality, 606. The
natural, most melancholy, and pathetic complaint of a worthy man, under
the persuasion of no Futurity, 653, &c. The gross absurdities and horrors
of annihilation urged home on Lorenzo, 843, &c. The soul's vast
importance, 992, &c.; from whence it arises, 1080. The Difficulty of
being an Infidel, 1133; the Infamy, 1148; the Cause, 1188; and the
Character, 1203, of an Infidel state. What true free-thinking is, 1218.
The necessary punishment of the false, 1273. Man's ruin is from himself,
1303. An Infidel accuses himself with guilt and hypocrisy, and that of
the worst sort, 1319. His obligation to Christians, 1337. What danger he
incurs by Virtue, 1345. Vice recommended to him, 1364. His high pretences
to Virtue and Benevolence exploded, 1373. The Conclusion, on the nature
of Faith, 1406; Reason, 1440; and Hope, 1445; with an apology for this
attempt, 1472.
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