A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART I of a beautiful house, which belongs to him, or which he has himself built and contrived. Here the object of the p ...

BOOK II PART I them as component parts of the cause; and infix in our minds an exact idea of this distinction. ...

BOOK II PART I SECTIONIII. WHENCE THESEOBJECTS AND CAUSES AREDERIVED Being so far advanced as to observe a differ- ence betwixt ...

BOOK II PART I is the object of pride and humility; and when- ever the passions look beyond, it is still with a view to ourselve ...

BOOK II PART I whether the causes, that produce the passion, be as natural as the object, to which it is di- rected, and whether ...

BOOK II PART I fected by these advantages? But though the causes of pride and humility be plainly natural, we shall find upon ex ...

BOOK II PART I and that every new production of art, which causes pride or humility; instead of adapting it- self to the passion ...

BOOK II PART I though the effects be many, the principles, from which they arise, are commonly but few and simple, and that it i ...

BOOK II PART I cate systems of the heavens, as seemed incon- sistent with true philosophy, and gave place at last to something m ...

BOOK II PART I SECTIONIV. OF THERELATIONS OF IMPRESSIONS ANDIDEAS Thus we have established two truths with- out any obstacle or ...

BOOK II PART I are not commonly much insisted on by philoso- phers. The first of these is the association of ideas, which I have ...

BOOK II PART I nected together, and no sooner one arises than the rest immediately follow. Grief and disap- pointment give rise ...

BOOK II PART I remarkable difference, that ideas are associated by resemblance, contiguity, and causation; and impressions only ...

BOOK II PART I The new passion, therefore, must arise with so much greater violence, and the transition to it must be rendered s ...

BOOK II PART I heighten the pleasure of the imagination, and make even the colours and verdure of the land- schape appear more a ...

BOOK II PART I SECTIONV. OF THEINFLUENCE OF THESE RELATIONS ONPRIDE ANDHUMILITY These principles being established on un- questi ...

BOOK II PART I be so in all; and take it for granted at present, without any farther proof, that every cause of pride, by its pe ...

BOOK II PART I ties, when transfered to subjects, which bear us no relation, influence not in the smallest degree either of thes ...

BOOK II PART I scious. Here at last the view always rests, when we are actuated by either of these passions; nor can we, in that ...

BOOK II PART I properties of the passions, viz, their object, which is self, and their sensation, which is ei- ther pleasant or ...