A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART I them without reluctance and uneasiness. And though young men are not ashamed of every head-ach or cold they fall ...

BOOK II PART I a horror to every one present: Of the itch; be- cause it is infectious: Of the king’s-evil; be- cause it commonly ...

BOOK II PART I SECTIONIX. OFEXTERNALADVANTAGES ANDDISADVANTAGES But though pride and humility have the qualities of our mind and ...

BOOK II PART I or connected with us. A beautiful fish in the ocean, an animal in a desart, and indeed any thing that neither bel ...

BOOK II PART I the valuable parts of his character, we must, in some degree, possess the quality, in which we resemble him; and ...

BOOK II PART I sign the following reason. We can never have a vanity of resembling in trifles any person, un- less he be possess ...

BOOK II PART I ceive the minuteness of the latter, and be in some measure ashamed of the comparison and resemblance. The relatio ...

BOOK II PART I of any kind, but only modifies those ideas, of which the mind was formerly possessed, and which it coued recal up ...

BOOK II PART I relation of ideas, which experience shews to be so requisite a circumstance to the production of the passion, wou ...

BOOK II PART I never be necessary, or even useful to the pas- sions, but by forwarding the transition betwixt some related impre ...

BOOK II PART I their country, of their county, of their parish. Here the idea of beauty plainly produces a pleasure. This pleasu ...

BOOK II PART I pride, except by means of that transition above- explained? There are some, that discover a vanity of an opposite ...

BOOK II PART I any inanimate object, which bears a relation to us, it is no wonder we are vain of the qualities of those, who ar ...

BOOK II PART I as we cannot prevent poverty in some distant collaterals, and our forefathers are taken to be our nearest relatio ...

BOOK II PART I tune have never past through any female. Let us endeavour to explain these phaenomena by the foregoing system. It ...

BOOK II PART I minish the passion. Now it is certain the iden- tity of the possesion strengthens the relation of ideas arising f ...

BOOK II PART I tirely upon the latter. As in the society of mar- riage, the male sex has the advantage above the female, the hus ...

BOOK II PART I father’s name, and are esteemed to be of no- bler or baser birth, according to his family. And though the mother ...

BOOK II PART I to brother. ...

BOOK II PART I SECTIONX. OFPROPERTY ANDRICHES But the relation, which is esteemed the clos- est, and which of all others produce ...