A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART III enlarges and elevates the imagination, when attended with a suitable object. As on the other hand, the facility ...

BOOK II PART III cerning them, and causes us to regard them as conclusions only of our intellectual facul- ties. Both the causes ...

BOOK II PART III as it is called, diversifies human life, and makes men so different not only from each other, but also from the ...

BOOK II PART III SECTIONIX. OF THEDIRECTPASSIONS It is easy to observe, that the passions, both direct and indirect, are founded ...

BOOK II PART III and be considered as to exist in any future pe- riod of time. But supposing that there is an immediate impressi ...

BOOK II PART III desire and aversion to the object. Thus a suit of fine cloaths produces pleasure from their beauty; and this pl ...

BOOK II PART III Desirearises from good considered simply, andaversionis derived from evil. Thewillex- erts itself, when either ...

BOOK II PART III It is evident that the very same event, which by its certainty would produce grief or joy, gives always rise to ...

BOOK II PART III is impossible for it, by reason of the opposition of causes or chances, to rest on either. The pro and con of t ...

BOOK II PART III view, the affections must in the same manner be divided betwixt opposite emotions. Now if we consider the human ...

BOOK II PART III passion will always be mixt and confounded with the other. According as the probability inclines to good or evi ...

BOOK II PART III passions are presented at once, beside the en- crease of the predominant passion (which has been already explai ...

BOOK II PART III for the birth of a son, the mind running from the agreeable to the calamitous object, with whatever celerity it ...

BOOK II PART III passions will both of them be present at once in the soul, and instead of destroying and temper- ing each other ...

BOOK II PART III impossible by one steady view to survey the opposite chances, and the events dependent on them; but it is neces ...

BOOK II PART III other, when they proceed from different parts of the same: And they subsist both of them and mingle together, w ...

BOOK II PART III carries its own evidence along with it, we shall be the more concise in our proofs. A few strong arguments are ...

BOOK II PART III the grief, after the same manner that you en- creased it; by diminishing the probability on that side, and you’ ...

BOOK II PART III termined by chance; or when, though the ob- ject be already certain, yet it is uncertain to our judgment, which ...

BOOK II PART III vincing proof of the present hypothesis. We find that an evil, barely conceived as possible, does sometimes pro ...