A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART II In examining those ingredients, which are capable of uniting with love and hatred, I be- gin to be sensible, in ...

BOOK II PART II perfectly known, and I have used all imagin- able caution in forming conclusions concern- ing them, I have alway ...

BOOK II PART II that emotion, which they produce, but carry the mind to something farther. Love is always followed by a desire o ...

BOOK II PART II ery of the person beloved or hated; all which views, mixing together, make only one passion. According to this s ...

BOOK II PART II and may subsist a considerable time, without our reflecting on the happiness or misery of their objects; which c ...

BOOK II PART II these opposite passions. This order of things, abstractedly considered, is not necessary. Love and hatred might ...

BOOK II PART II SECTIONVII. OFCOMPASSION But though the desire of the happiness or misery of others, according to the love or ha ...

BOOK II PART II It will be easy to explain the passion of pity, from the precedent reasoning concerning sym- pathy. We have a li ...

BOOK II PART II composed without some reverses of fortune, the spectator must sympathize with all these changes, and receive the ...

BOOK II PART II Add to this, that pity depends, in a great measure, on the contiguity, and even sight of the object; which is a ...

BOOK II PART II sion; which is, that the communicated passion of sympathy sometimes acquires strength from the weakness of its o ...

BOOK II PART II of his sorrow, and then feel an impression of it, entirely over-looking that greatness of mind, which elevates h ...

BOOK II PART II considering the other, which has a contrary ef- fect, and would entirely destroy that emotion, which arises from ...

BOOK II PART II still more lively, and the sensation more violent by a contrast with that security and indiffer- ence, which we ...

BOOK II PART II SECTIONVIII. OFNALICE ANDENVY We must now proceed to account for the pas- sion of malice, which imitates the eff ...

BOOK II PART II band and cool the other; the same water will, at the same time, seem both hot and cold, ac- cording to the dispo ...

BOOK II PART II in the retina, and in the brain or organ of per- ception. The eyes refract the rays of light, and the optic nerv ...

BOOK II PART II touch upon two principles, one of which shall be more fully explained in the progress of this treatise; the othe ...

BOOK II PART II admiration, which arises on the appearance of such objects, is one of the most lively pleasures, which human nat ...

BOOK II PART II riches and poverty, happiness and misery, and other objects of that kind, which are always at- tended with an ev ...