A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART II the Satellites ofJupiter, our fancy is naturally determined to form the idea of that planet; but if we first ref ...

BOOK II PART II of the people, passing from her who was in- termediate, and placed in an equal relation to both, would always le ...

BOOK II PART II produce first love, and then pride; because in that case the imagination passes from remote to contiguous, accor ...

BOOK II PART II trary to the natural propensity of the imagi- nation, that faculty must be overpowered by some stronger principl ...

BOOK II PART II ther of these affections. A man, when calm or only moderately agitated, is so different, in ev- ery respect, fro ...

BOOK II PART II there is a closer connexion betwixt the great de- gree and the small, than betwixt the small de- gree and the gr ...

BOOK II PART II side. In spite of the difficulty of passing from the idea of great to that of little, a passion di- rected to th ...

BOOK II PART II present experiment we find the same property of the impressions. Two different degrees of the same passion are s ...

BOOK II PART II a violent. In this opposition the passion in the end prevails over the imagination; but it is commonly by comply ...

BOOK II PART II Eighth Experiment. I have observed that the transition from love or hatred to pride or hu- mility, is more easy ...

BOOK II PART II and that this passion is transfused into love or hatred, whose object is some other person, notwithstanding the ...

BOOK II PART II a confirmation of the rule. And indeed, if we consider all the eight experiments I have ex- plained, we shall fi ...

BOOK II PART II and Eighth Experiments.) even under the ap- pearance of its contrary; and as relation is fre- quently experience ...

BOOK II PART II SECTIONIII. DIFFICULTIESSOLVED After so many and such undeniable proofs drawn from daily experience and observat ...

BOOK II PART II the means either by his services, his beauty, or his flattery, to render himself useful or agree- able to us, is ...

BOOK II PART II treachery we call policy: His cruelty is an evil inseparable from war. In short, every one of his faults we eith ...

BOOK II PART II But here we must make a distinction. If that quality in another, which pleases or dis- pleases, be constant and ...

BOOK II PART II and author. This relation alone is too feeble and inconstant to be a foundation for these pas- sions. It reaches ...

BOOK II PART II tion, besides its strengthening the relation of ideas, is often necessary to produce a relation of impressions, ...

BOOK II PART II move every degree of these relations. But then I ask, if the removal of design be able entirely to remove the pa ...