A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART II verted by it, and seem to authorize its errors. The conclusion I draw from these two prin- ciples, joined to the ...

BOOK II PART II we consider, that comparison may change the emotion without changing anything in the ob- ject. Those who are acq ...

BOOK II PART II portion as they appear more or less fortunate or unhappy, in proportion to the degrees of riches, and power, and ...

BOOK II PART II in all kinds of comparison an object makes us always receive from another, to which it is compared, a sensation ...

BOOK II PART II ness, and gives us pleasure. Nor will it appear strange, that we may feel a reverst sensation from the happiness ...

BOOK II PART II upon two occasions. First, Upon the distress and misfortune of a friend, or person dear to him. Secondly, Upon t ...

BOOK II PART II ment he deserves, the idea of it is magnifyed by a comparison with his present ease and satis- faction; which fo ...

BOOK II PART II tance, in order to augment, still more the idea of ourself. When this distance diminishes, the comparison is les ...

BOOK II PART II ers, that it is not the great disproportion be- twixt ourself and another, which produces it; but on the contrar ...

BOOK II PART II quality to join them in the imagination; it is im- possible they can remain long united, or have any considerabl ...

BOOK II PART II out any communication together. The want of relation in the ideas breaks the relation of the impressions, and by ...

BOOK II PART II less, than when viewed apart. From the same principle we may account for that remark of historians, that any par ...

BOOK II PART II easy, where superiority is conjoined with other relations, seeks its repose as much as possible, by their separa ...

BOOK II PART II one would condemn so strange a mixture, and would accuse him of the neglect of all rules of art and criticism. T ...

BOOK II PART II progress of the affections, and hinders the one from influencing or contradicting the other? An heroic and burle ...

BOOK II PART II the passions. Suppose two objects to be pre- sented to me, which are not connected by any kind of relation. Supp ...

BOOK II PART II tributes to the production of the effect. ...

BOOK II PART II SECTIONIX. OF THEMIXTURE OF BENEVOLENCE ANDANGER WITH COMPASSION ANDMALICE Thus we have endeavoured to account f ...

BOOK II PART II a mixture of love or tenderness with pity, and of hatred or anger with malice. But it must be confessed, that th ...

BOOK II PART II beginning to the end. One impression may be related to another, not only when their sensa- tions are resembling, ...