A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART II relations either to ourselves or others, be able to produce the affections of pride or humility, love or hatred. ...

BOOK II PART II which by their opposition destroy each other. But if we consider, on the other hand, that this transition from t ...

BOOK II PART II mility or hatred, and search for other objects, upon which by a double relation, it can found these affections; ...

BOOK II PART II not the passion on some other object, that bears either of us a closer relation, my emotions are rather to be co ...

BOOK II PART II such as virtue, that causes a separate satisfac- tion: On this object I bestow a relation to self; and find, tha ...

BOOK II PART II wheel to about, and leaving pride, where there is only one relation, viz, of impressions, fall to the side of lo ...

BOOK II PART II long to myself. What follows? What is usual. A subsequent change of the passion from ha- tred to humility. This ...

BOOK II PART II teem and contempt, indeed, arise on some oc- casions instead of love and hatred; but these are at the bottom the ...

BOOK II PART II pressions and ideas to this person; and let us see what the effects are of all these complicated attractions and ...

BOOK II PART II tion is the object of my passion, the very same reasoning leads me to think the passion will be carryed farther. ...

BOOK II PART II famy. This exact conformity of experience to our reasoning is a convincing proof of the so- lidity of that hypot ...

BOOK II PART II virtue or vice we discern in ourselves; though it is evident the same qualities in him give us a very sensible p ...

BOOK II PART II and passions, their ideas must strike upon us with greater vivacity than the ideas of the sen- timents and passi ...

BOOK II PART II assist each other in their operations when their propensities are similar, and when they act upon the same objec ...

BOOK II PART II though the relations be reciprocal they have very different effects on the imagination. The passage is smooth an ...

BOOK II PART II fancy in producing an association or transition of ideas, is prevented; its usual effect upon the passions, in c ...

BOOK II PART II tion such as lie contiguous to us, or resemble us. But when self is the object of a passion, it is not natural t ...

BOOK II PART II fect resemblance, that can be imagined. If a double relation, therefore, of impressions and ideas is able to pro ...

BOOK II PART II There is only one difficulty in this experi- ment, which it will be necessary to account for, before we proceed ...

BOOK II PART II objects, descend with greater facility than they ascend. That we may comprehend, wherein consists the difficulty ...