A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART III divines have displayed with such eloquence concerning the importance of eternity; and at the same time reflect, ...

BOOK I PART III exist after the dissolution of the body, that all the reasons we can invent, however strong in themselves, and h ...

BOOK I PART III those few, who upon cool reflection on the im- portance of the subject, have taken care by re- peated meditation ...

BOOK I PART III barous, though projected or executed against those very people, whom without any scruple they condemn to eternal ...

BOOK I PART III the imagination reposes itself indolently on the idea; and the passion, being softened by the want of belief in ...

BOOK I PART III attends it; and by means of the present im- pression and easy transition must conceive that idea in a stronger a ...

BOOK I PART III All those opinions and notions of things, to which we have been accustomed from our in- fancy, take such deep ro ...

BOOK I PART III of it. But it is certain it coued never supply the place of that comparison, nor produce any act of the mind, wh ...

BOOK I PART III If we consider this argument fromeducation in a proper light, it will appear very convinc- ing; and the more so, ...

BOOK I PART III is an artificial and not a natural cause, and as its maxims are frequently contrary to reason, and even to thems ...

BOOK I PART III SECTIONX. OF THEINFLUENCE OFBELIEF But though education be disclaimed by phi- losophy, as a fallacious ground of ...

BOOK I PART III so inconsiderable, and that the far greatest part of our reasonings with all our actions and pas- sions, can be ...

BOOK I PART III Impressions always actuate the soul, and that in the highest degree; but it is not every idea which has the same ...

BOOK I PART III quillity. Nature has, therefore, chosen a medium, and has neither bestowed on every idea of good and evil the po ...

BOOK I PART III and an idea, they must of consequence be the source of all the differences in the effects of these perceptions, ...

BOOK I PART III As belief is almost absolutely requisite to the exciting our passions, so the passions in their turn are very fa ...

BOOK I PART III and vivacity, and consequently assent to it, ac- cording to the precedent system. Admiration and surprize have t ...

BOOK I PART III culty in explaining its effects on the imagina- tion, however extraordinary they may appear. It is certain we ca ...

BOOK I PART III imagination. But if we compare together all the phenom- ena that occur on this head, we shall find, that truth, ...

BOOK I PART III ination. Poets have formed what they call a poetical system of things, which though it be believed neither by th ...