A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART III of the objects is so easy, that the mind is scarce sensible of it, but applies itself to the concep- tion of the ...

BOOK I PART III sion. Where the picture bears him no resem- blance, or at least was not intended for him, it never so much as co ...

BOOK I PART III tions, and postures, and actions, in enlivening their devotion, and quickening their fervour, which otherwise wo ...

BOOK I PART III the foregoing principle. We may add force to these experiments by others of a different kind, in considering the ...

BOOK I PART III duces an idea of them. But as in this latter case, both the objects of the mind are ideas; notwithstanding there ...

BOOK I PART III {“Should I, he said, “attribute to instinct or to some kind of illusion the fact that when we see those places i ...

BOOK I PART III house (I mean the old building of Hostilius, not this new one; when it was enlarged, it dimin- ished in my estim ...

BOOK I PART III the handywork of a saint; and if his cloaths and furniture are ever to be considered in this light, it is becaus ...

BOOK I PART III purpose? It is certain we must have an idea of every matter of fact, which we believe. It is cer- tain, that thi ...

BOOK I PART III experience and observation. I suppose there is an object presented, from which I draw a certain conclusion, and ...

BOOK I PART III First then I observe, that the present impres- sion has not this effect by its own proper power and efficacy, an ...

BOOK I PART III say, arises immediately, without any new op- eration of the reason or imagination. Of this I can be certain, bec ...

BOOK I PART III this phaenomenon of belief. I therefore change the first impression into an idea; and observe, that though the c ...

BOOK I PART III which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do noth ...

BOOK I PART III knowledge of these consequences is conveyed to him by past experience, which informs him of such certain conjunc ...

BOOK I PART III necessarily acknowledge, that experience may produce a belief and a judgment of causes and effects by a secret o ...

BOOK I PART III view expressly to consider any past experience: Though in other associations of objects, which are more rare and ...

BOOK I PART III instance; it may be thought, that belief cannot in this case be esteemed the effect of custom. But this difficul ...

BOOK I PART III I must not conclude this subject without ob- serving, that it is very difficult to talk of the operations of the ...

BOOK I PART III the same influence; especially upon my princi- ple, that all our ideas are derived from corre- spondent impressi ...