A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART III rity, has a like influence. It is certain nothing more powerfully ani- mates any affection, than to conceal som ...

BOOK II PART III strong; as the wind extinguishes a candle, but blows up a fire. Long absence naturally weak- ens our idea, and ...

BOOK II PART III SECTIONV. OF THEEFFECTS OFCUSTOM But nothing has a greater effect both to en- crease and diminish our passions, ...

BOOK II PART III is the source of wonder, surprize, and of all the emotions, which arise from novelty; and is in itself very agr ...

BOOK II PART III of the human mind, and an infallible source of pleasure, where the facility goes not beyond a certain degree. A ...

BOOK II PART III deed, scarce any other objects become disagree- able through custom; but such as are natu- rally attended with ...

BOOK II PART III late eminent philosopher. The facility takes off from the force of the passive habits by render- ing the motion ...

BOOK II PART III SECTIONVI. OF THEINFLUENCE OF THE IMAGINATION ON THEPASSIONS It is remarkable, that the imagination and affecti ...

BOOK II PART III we own to be superior, but of whose nature we are wholly ignorant. Of the one we can form a particular and dete ...

BOOK II PART III useful to the public, but which it was impos- sible for him to communicate to them with- out ruining the execut ...

BOOK II PART III just: Upon which the people unanimously re- jected the project. A late celebrated historian (Mons. Rollin Charl ...

BOOK II PART III in this proceeding of the Athenians. The same reasons, which render it so easy for philoso- phers to establish ...

BOOK II PART III tice, and rejected any considerable advantage. Any satisfaction, which we lately enjoyed, and of which the memo ...

BOOK II PART III Nothing is more capable of infusing any pas- sion into the mind, than eloquence, by which objects are represent ...

BOOK II PART III imagination. It is remarkable, that lively passions com- monly attend a lively imagination. In this re- spect, ...

BOOK II PART III SECTIONVII. OFCONTIGUITY AND DISTANCE INSPACE ANDTIME There is an easy reason, why every thing contiguous to us ...

BOOK II PART III quent advertisements of them from the pas- sions and senses, that however it may turn its attention to foreign ...

BOOK II PART III ruption must weaken the idea by breaking the action of the mind, and hindering the concep- tion from being so i ...

BOOK II PART III the will and passions. Contiguous objects must have an influence much superior to the distant and remote. Accor ...

BOOK II PART III space are much inferior to those of a removal in time. Twenty years are certainly but a small distance of time ...