West-India Colonies, Confidera- WITHERSPOON's Essays, 469 319 Wynn's Edition of the New Testa- Whitewood's Letter to Piké, i ment, Whitworth's Succession of Par- DescRIPT10 novi instrumenti pro Abrege' Chronologique de l'Hift. DIATRIBE, de Cepotaphio, &c. ALBINUS-Academicarum Annota- Dictionair e Philosophique, 503 tionum Liber sextus, 545 DisserTATION sur la Nature, les DISSERTATION sur Elie et Enoch, Bonnet Contemplations de la DU PAY -- Instruction paftorale, Elie et Enoch, &c. 558 ELEMENTA Metaphysicæ, BUFFON-Histoire Naturelle, &c. ENTRETIENS entre un homme du FERMIN—Traité des Maladies, &c. CASIMIR-Send Schrieben von der Formey-Discours Moraux, 552 Auftrottung derer Kinder-blat- CONTEMPLATIONS de la Nature, Genovesi-Elementa Metaphy- D'ALEMBERT Opufcules Mathe. INSTRUCTION pastorale de Eveque D'ARGENSON-Contiderations sur JONCOURT-Oeuvres diverses, 553 DE BEAUMONT — Lettres de Ro. LAMBERT- Pensées sur la maniere LINNÆUS-Muszum ReginæBræ. Rousseau-Lettres écrites de ta Louis-Memoire sur une question anatomique relative a Jurispru- SPECIMEN Hift. Nat. Globi Ter- 547 TRATE des Maladies les plus fre- MEMOIRES touchant le Gouverne- VANDELLI--Lettera al Sig. dottore NOLLET-Leçons de Physique ex- Carló Gardini, 547 'VERHANDELINGEN witgegeeven door de Hollandsche Maatschap- PALLUCCI — Ratio facilis atque VOLTAIRE-Dictionaire Philoso. futa nasium curandi Polypos, phique, menti pro cura Cataractæ, 547 Vadé, POLOGNE, Abr. Chron. de l'Hita RASPE Spemimen Hift. Nat. &c, der Kunft des alterthumbs, szz A Conclusion of the Account of an Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense. Great part of what Dr. Reid has advanced, concerning the sense of Smelling, (of which we gave a full account in our Review for May) is to easily applied to those of Tasting and Hearing, that he saves his Readers the trouble of a tedious repetition, and leaves the application entirely to their own judgments. He introduces what he says concerning Touch, with observing, that the senses, already considered, are very simple and uniform, each of them exhibiting only one kind of sensation, and thereby indicating only one quality of bodies. By the ear we perceive sounds, and nothing else; by the palate, tastes; and by the nose, odours : these qualities are all likewise of one order, being all secondary qualities : whereas by touch we perceive not one quality only, but many, and those of very different kinds. The chief of them are heat and cold, hardness and softness, roughness and smoothness, figure, solidity, motion, and extension. These our Author considers in order. As to heat and cold, it will easily be allowed, that they are secondary qualities, of the same order with smell, taste, and sound. And, therefore, what has been said of smell, is easily applicable to them; that is, that the words heat and cold have each of them two significations; they sometimes signify certain sensations of the mind, which can have no existence when they are not felt, nor can exist any where but in a mind, or fentient being; but more frequently they fignify a quality in bodies, which, by the laws of nature, occasions the sensations of heat and cold in us : a quality which, though connected by custom fo closely with the sensation, that we cannot without difficulty VOL. XXXI, B separate |