A Treatise of Human Nature
BOOK II PART I tages, which he reaps from it. It is the same case, if justice, according to the system of cer- tain philosophers ...
BOOK II PART I And whether it be so or not, we may soon sat- isfy ourselves by the most cursory view of hu- man life. Every thin ...
BOOK II PART I once to such a prince or great man: All objects, in a word, that are useful, beautiful or surpris- ing, or are re ...
BOOK II PART I have the same effect. Now riches are to be con- sidered as the power of acquiring the property of what pleases; a ...
BOOK II PART I of it, is entirely frivolous, and that neither man nor any other being ought ever to be thought possest of any ab ...
BOOK II PART I from the scholastic doctrine of free-will, which, indeed, enters very little into common life, and has but small ...
BOOK II PART I ternal obstacle to his actions; but also that he may punish or reward me as he pleases, with- out any dread of pu ...
BOOK II PART I strong motives, which can give us an absolute certainty in pronouncing concerning any of his future actions. When ...
BOOK II PART I regard the real existence of objects, and we al- ways judge of this reality from past instances; nothing can be m ...
BOOK II PART I though perhaps I never really feel any harm, and discover by the event, that, philosophically speaking, the perso ...
BOOK II PART I pleasure, nothing can be more probable, than its existence when there is no external obstacle to the producing it ...
BOOK II PART I cannot form any such conclusion in a way of reasoning concerning she nearer approach of the pleasure, it is certa ...
BOOK II PART I and casts a shadow or image of itself, even to that side, on which it did not settle. By means of this image the ...
BOOK II PART I able pleasure; and as its cause is some posses- sion or property, which we enjoy, and which is thereby related to ...
BOOK II PART I to frame statues of such an admirable mecha- nism, that they coued move and act in obedi- ence to the will; it is ...
BOOK II PART I erable effect in augmenting its influence, will appear afterwards in examining the nature of malice and envy. ...
BOOK II PART I SECTIONXI. OF THELOVE OFFAME But beside these original causes of pride and humility, there is a secondary one in ...
BOOK II PART I inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own. This is not only conspicuous in ...
BOOK II PART I and even the proudest and most surly take a tincture from their countrymen and acquain- tance. A chearful counten ...
BOOK II PART I ity, as to become the very passion itself, and produce an equal emotion, as any original af- fection. However ins ...
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