1783 Catalog

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Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind, which being

I. Memory       II. Reason       III. Imagination

are applied respectively to

I. History      II. Philosophy     III. Fine Arts



                       
Chap
  
              Antient   Antient hist    
          Civil proper.   Foreign    
      Civil   Modern British    
              American    
        Ecclesiastical . . . . . . . . . . . .   Ecclesiastical    
                Nat.l Philos.y    
    History           Agriculture    
        Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemistry    
              Surgery    
             

Medicine

    
      Natural Nat.l hist.y prop.r Animals Anatomy    
          Zoology    
          Vegetables   Botany    
            Minerals   Mineralogy    
          Occupations of Man . . . . . .   Technical arts    
                     
                    Chap  
      Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * Moral Philos.y 
 
      Law Nature & Nations  
  Moral   Religious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Religion  
            Equity  
            Common Law  
    Jurisprudence   Domestic L. Merchant  
             Municipal   L. Maritime  
Philosophy         L. Ecclesiast.l   
          Foreign   Foreign Law  
        Oeconomical . . . . . . . . . . . .

Politics

  
        Commerce  
    Pure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arithmetic  
    Geometry  
  Mathematical            Mechanics
 
                Statics  
                Dynamics  
      Physico-Mathematical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pneumatics  
                  Phonics  
                  Optics  
                  Astronomy  
                  Geography  
                     
                       
                 
Chap
  
          Gardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Gardening    
          Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Architecture    
          Sculpture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Sculpture    
          Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Painting    
            Theoretical    Music Theory    
          Music Practical Music Vocal    
            Music Instrument.l    
            Narrative Epic    
            Romance    
             

Tragedy

    
        Fine Arts  Poetry Dramatic Comedy    
        Pastorals
 
        Odes  
              Elegies  
              Dialogue  
              Satire
 
            Didactic Epigram  
                Epistles  
                Logic  
          Oratory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rhetoric  
                Oration  
          Criticism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Criticism    
             
  Authors who have written in various branches Polygraphical 46.
 


* in classing a small library one may throw under this head books which attempt what may be called the Natural history of the mind or an Analysis of it's operations. the term and division of Metaphysics is rejected as meaning nothing or something beyound our reach, or what should be called by another name.
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