A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART I to our present anatomy of the mind, and see what discoveries we can make by it. In order to this we must first sh ...

BOOK II PART I ness, of hounds in sagacity and smell, of the bull and cock in strength, and of every other animal in his particu ...

BOOK II PART I just allowance for our superior knowledge and understanding. Thus animals have little or no sense of virtue or vi ...

BOOK II PART I to be expected; and if we find upon trial, that the explication of these phaenomena, which we make use of in one ...

BOOK II PART I semblance are not so remarkable; but as that re- lation makes a considerable ingredient in cau- sation, of which ...

BOOK II PART I was grief, is by the smallest occasion converted into anger. Thus all the internal principles, that are nec- essa ...

PART II OFLOVE ANDHATRED SECTIONI. OF THEOBJECT ANDCAUSES OF LOVE ANDHATRED It is altogether impossible to give any defi- nition ...

BOOK II PART II concerning pride and humility, and here repeat it concerning love and hatred; and indeed there is so great a res ...

BOOK II PART II common with that tender emotion which is ex- cited by a friend or mistress. It is the same case with hatred. We ...

BOOK II PART II If we consider the causes of love and ha- tred, we shall find they are very much diver- sifyed, and have not man ...

BOOK II PART II A prince, that is possessed of a stately palace, commands the esteem of the people upon that account; and that f ...

BOOK II PART II ity,that the cause of both these passions is always related to a thinking being, and that the cause of the forme ...

BOOK II PART II respect, as if I were owner of the palace. It is not so evident at first sight, that a re- lation of impressions ...

BOOK II PART II founded on unquestionable examination. There are few persons, that are satisfyed with their own character, or ge ...

BOOK II PART II It is true, few can form exact systems of the passions, or make reflections on their general nature and resembla ...

BOOK II PART II SECTIONII. EXPERIMENTS TOCONFIRM THISSYSTEM Upon duly weighing these arguments, no one will make any scruple to ...

BOOK II PART II natural and ultimate object of all these four passions placed before me. Myself am the proper object of pride or ...

BOOK II PART II and love, and that betwixt humility and hatred form a new connexion, and may be considered as the other two side ...

BOOK II PART II sions. Thus suppose we regard together an or- dinary stone, or other common object, belong- ing to neither of us ...

BOOK II PART II any passion, let us bestow on it only one of these relations; and see what will follow. Thus suppose, I regard a ...