A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART III evil, which influences the imagination in the same manner as the certainty of it would do; but being encountere ...

BOOK II PART III which fluctuation and uncertainty there arises a passion of much the same appearance with fear. But it is not o ...

BOOK II PART III imagination a tremulous and unsteady motion, resembling in its cause, as well as in its sensa- tion, the mixtur ...

BOOK II PART III The suddenness and strangeness of an appear- ance naturally excite a commotion in the mind, like every thing fo ...

BOOK II PART III site views and considerations they present to us. A person, who has left his friend in any malady, will feel mo ...

BOOK II PART III reladon of impressions to the uneasy passions. It is thus our uncertainty concerning any minute circumstance re ...

BOOK II PART III But this principle of the connexion of fear with uncertainty I carry farther, and observe that any doubt produc ...

BOOK II PART III least a passion so like it, that they are scarcely to be distinguished. I have here confined myself to the exam ...

BOOK II PART III are the same affections; and arise from the same causes, though with a small variation, which it is not necessa ...

BOOK II PART III SECTIONX. OFCURIOSITY,OR THELOVE OFTRUTH But methinks we have been not a little inat- tentive to run over so ma ...

BOOK II PART III of objects to their real existence. It is certain, that the former species of truth, is not desired merely as t ...

BOOK II PART III it, merely as such, but only as endowed with certain qualities. The first and most considerable circum- stance ...

BOOK II PART III which of all other exercises of the mind is the most pleasant and agreeable. But though the exercise of genius ...

BOOK II PART III tune, in the search of such truths, as they es- teemed important and useful to the world, though it appeared fr ...

BOOK II PART III and advantages, natural or acquired; observes the disposition and contrivance of the bastions, ramparts, mines, ...

BOOK II PART III erable an original. But here I return to what I have already remarked, that the pleasure of study conflicts chi ...

BOOK II PART III attainment of the end, or the discovery of that truth we examine. Upon this head I shall make a general remark, ...

BOOK II PART III It is evident, that the pleasure of hunting con- flicts in the action of the mind and body; the motion, the att ...

BOOK II PART III ing after them. To make the parallel betwixt hunting and philosophy more compleat, we may observe, that though ...

BOOK II PART III nothing: But proceeds from both these causes united, though separately they have no effect. It is here, as in c ...