A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART II an aversion to his happiness. A desire, there- fore, of the happiness of another, and aversion to his misery, ar ...

BOOK II PART II give it authority and influence on the mind. To confirm us in any design, we search for motives drawn from inter ...

BOOK II PART II Suppose, that two persons of the same trade should seek employment in a town, that is not able to maintain both, ...

BOOK II PART II lations of impressions and ideas, if we regard only the present sensation. For takeing the first case of rivalsh ...

BOOK II PART II same manner as I love a brother or country- man. A rival has almost as close a relation to me as a partner. For ...

BOOK II PART II sympathy we feel a sensation correspondent to those, which appear in any person, who is present with us. On the ...

BOOK II PART II phaenomena, indeed, may in part be accounted for from other principles. But here there occurs a considerable obj ...

BOOK II PART II mentary pain or pleasure, which determines the character of any passion, but the general bent or tendency of it ...

BOOK II PART II which a transition of passion may arise, viz, a double relation of ideas and impressions, and what is similar to ...

BOOK II PART II only anticipate by the force of imagination. For supposing I saw a person perfectly unknown to me, who, while as ...

BOOK II PART II ture in sympathizing with any person, the ex- tending of our sympathy depends in a great measure upon our sense ...

BOOK II PART II my breast, conformable to whatever I imagine in his. If I diminish the vivacity of the first conception, I dimin ...

BOOK II PART II Now in order to know what passions are related to these different kinds of sympathy, we must consider, that bene ...

BOOK II PART II sion of love or hatred depends upon the same principle. A strong impression, when commu- nicated, gives a double ...

BOOK II PART II will. We may under-value a peasant or servant; but when the misery of a beggar appears very great, or is painted ...

BOOK II PART II one, and reaches no farther than the immediate sensation, which is disagreeable. The view of a city in ashes con ...

BOOK II PART II that compleat sympathy there arises pity and benevolence. But it will easily be imagined, that where the present ...

BOOK II PART II ble sympathy even from a midling degree of the passion; in which case we find, that pity, instead of producing l ...

BOOK II PART II I. shall just observe, before I leave the present subject, that this phaenomenon of the double sympathy, and its ...

BOOK II PART II SECTIONX. OFRESPECT ANDCONTEMPT There now remains only to explain the pas- sion of respect and contempt, along w ...