A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART I SECTIONVII. OFVICE ANDVIRTUE Taking these limitations along with us, let us proceed to examine the causes of prid ...

BOOK II PART I natural and original principles, or arise from inter- est and education. The examination of this I re- serve for ...

BOOK II PART I from the liberality of others, but are always in danger of losing by their avarice: Courage de- fends us, but cow ...

BOOK II PART I from the prospect of any loss or advantage, that may result from our own characters, or from those of others, all ...

BOOK II PART I origin of moral rights and obligations, is, that from a primary constitution of nature certain characters and pas ...

BOOK II PART I causes of vice and virtue, are at least insepara- ble from them. A generous and noble character affords a satisfa ...

BOOK II PART I and nothing gives us a more sensible mortifi- cation than a disappointment in any attempt of that nature. No one ...

BOOK II PART I or humility, which arises from them. There may, perhaps, be some, who being ac- customed to the style of the scho ...

BOOK II PART I reflecting on a generous action; and it is by none esteemed a virtue to feel any fruitless re- morses upon the th ...

BOOK II PART I SECTIONVIII. OFBEAUTY AND DEFORMITY Whether we consider the body as a part of ourselves, or assent to those philo ...

BOOK II PART I be placed upon our own bodies, this pleasure or uneasiness must be converted into pride or humility, as having in ...

BOOK II PART I plain the difference betwixt beauty and defor- mity, we shall find that all of them resolve into this, that beaut ...

BOOK II PART I agility in another. The order and convenience of a palace are no less essential to its beauty, than its mere figu ...

BOOK II PART I and among the rest pride and humility, which of all their effects are the most common and re- markable. This argu ...

BOOK II PART I originally different betwixt the beauty of our bodies and the beauty of external and foreign objects, but that th ...

BOOK II PART I It is not the beauty of the body alone that produces pride, but also its strength and force. Strength is a kind o ...

BOOK II PART I from the power of producing pleasure, it can never be disputed, that as surprize is nothing but a pleasure arisin ...

BOOK II PART I with a variety of adventures; and where that talent is wanting, they appropriate such as be- long to others, in o ...

BOOK II PART I sion is immediately destroyed.. A surprising adventure, in which we have been ourselves engaged, is related to us ...

BOOK II PART I ourself; as also, that every cause of that passion must be in some measure constant, and hold some proportion to ...