A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART III of being at once present to the sight or feeling. On the contrary, time or succession, though it consists likew ...

BOOK II PART III banishing what is supposed to have been im- mediately precedent. By this means any dis- tance in time causes a ...

BOOK II PART III sion through the points of space and time, we have another peculiarity in our method of thinking, which concurs ...

BOOK II PART III is from thence we proceed to the conception of any distant object. When the object is past, the progression of ...

BOOK II PART III tance in the past has, therefore, a greater effect, in interupting and weakening the conception, than a much gr ...

BOOK II PART III ture, would have a similar influence. Nor is this only true, when the fancy remains fixed, and from the present ...

BOOK II PART III existence; and following what seems the nat- ural succession of time, proceed from past to present, and from pr ...

BOOK II PART III SECTIONVIII. THESAMESUBJECT CONTINUED Thus we have accounted for three phaenom- ena, which seem pretty remarkab ...

BOOK II PART III a great distance encreases our esteem and ad- miration for an object; it is evident that the mere view and cont ...

BOOK II PART III Accordingly we find, that it is not necessary the object should be actually distant from us, in or- der to caus ...

BOOK II PART III the Greeks and Romans, it is certain we regard with more veneration the old Chaldeans and Egyptians, than the m ...

BOOK II PART III have been acquainted. Compliance, by render- ing our strength useless, makes us insensible of it: but oppositio ...

BOOK II PART III agreeable to us; as on the contrary, what weak- ens and infeebles them is uneasy. As opposi- tion has the first ...

BOOK II PART III nius is called an elevate and sublime one. Atque Udam spernit Humum fugiente Penna (Spurns the dank soil in win ...

BOOK II PART III difference betwixt high and low, and that this distinction arises only from the gravitation of matter, which pr ...

BOOK II PART III which is situated above it; as if our ideas ac- quired a kind of gravity from their objects. As a proof of this ...

BOOK II PART III tion naturally conveys to the fancy this inclina- tion for ascent, and determines it to run against the natural ...

BOOK II PART III proceeds from that origin. All this is easily applied to the present ques- tion, why a considerable distance in ...

BOOK II PART III feels a more vigorous and sublime disposition, than in a transition through the parts of space, where the ideas ...

BOOK II PART III rity weakens not our ideas so much as an equal removal in the past. Though a removal in the past, when very gre ...