A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART II To illustrate this doctrine by a parallel in- stance, we may observe, that not only the un- easiness, which proc ...

BOOK II PART II demns them, even though they be conscious of their own deserts? In like manner our antago- nist in a law-suit, a ...

BOOK II PART II Nor is it any wonder that passion should produce the opinion of injury; since otherwise it must suffer a conside ...

BOOK II PART II SECTIONIV. OF THELOVE OFRELATIONS Having given a reason, why several actions, that cause a real pleasure or unea ...

BOOK II PART II speaking, that this relation is always attended with both the others. Whoever is united to us by any connexion i ...

BOOK II PART II kindness. When we have contracted a habitude and intimacy with any person; though in fre- quenting his company w ...

BOOK II PART II in hunting, in business; by which we endeav- our to forget ourselves, and excite our spirits from the languid st ...

BOOK II PART II timents and affections; and lets us see, in the very instant of their production, all the emo- tions, which are ...

BOOK II PART II trance, and strengthens the conception of any object. The first case is parallel to our reason- ings from cause ...

BOOK II PART II positions, and that men of gay tempers natu- rally love the gay; as the serious bear an af- fection to the serio ...

BOOK II PART II by degrees into a real impression; these two kinds of perception being in a great measure the same, and differin ...

BOOK II PART II The great propensity men have to pride may be considered as another similar phaenomenon. It often happens, that ...

BOOK II PART II vanity, than any other. It may not be amiss, in treating of the affec- tion we bear our acquaintance and relatio ...

BOOK II PART II much loosened in the latter case as by the mar- riage of a mother. These two phaenomena are remarkable in themse ...

BOOK II PART II from the second to the first must also, in every case, be equally natural as its passage from the first to the s ...

BOOK II PART II transition is easy only in one of these motions. The double motion is a kind of a double tie, and binds the obje ...

BOOK II PART II indulge its inclination to change. It goes with facility, but returns with difficulty; and by that interruption ...

BOOK II PART II thought from him to his spouse, but keeps the passage still open for a return to myself along the same relation ...

BOOK II PART II SECTIONV. OFOURESTEEM FOR THERICH ANDPOWERFUL Nothing has a greater tendency to give us an esteem for any person ...

BOOK II PART II possess; such as houses, gardens, equipages; which, being agreeable in themselves, neces- sarily produce a senti ...