A Treatise of Human Nature
BOOK III PART III ter than words, or even wishes and sentiments; but it is only so far as they are such indica- tions, that they ...
BOOK III PART III spondent movements in every human creature. When I see the effects of passion in the voice and gesture of any ...
BOOK III PART III effects. From these we infer the passion: And consequently these give rise to our sympathy. Our sense of beaut ...
BOOK III PART III therefore, is owing the beauty, which we find in every thing that is useful. How considerable a part this is o ...
BOOK III PART III The same principle produces, in many in- stances, our sentiments of morals, as well as those of beauty. No vir ...
BOOK III PART III be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good-manners. All these are mere human contr ...
BOOK III PART III that it produces our sentiment of morals in all the artificial virtues. From thence we may pre- sume, that it ...
BOOK III PART III effect, we ought to rest satisfied with it, and ought not to multiply causes without necessity. We have happil ...
BOOK III PART III are commonly denominated the social virtues, to mark their tendency to the good of soci- ety. This goes so far ...
BOOK III PART III roneous, it may teach us, that moral distinc- tions arise, in a great measure, from the ten- dency of qualitie ...
BOOK III PART III public good; and it is only the concurrence of mankind, in a general scheme or system of ac- tion, which is ad ...
BOOK III PART III tions, established it. After it is once established by these conventions, it is naturally attended with a stro ...
BOOK III PART III we are concerned, who receives benefit from justice, but the whole society alike. On the con- trary, every par ...
BOOK III PART III Before I proceed farther, I must observe two remarkable circumstances in this affair, which may seem objection ...
BOOK III PART III recommend themselves equally to the esteem of a judicious spectator. The sympathy varies without a variation i ...
BOOK III PART III teem the one more than the other: And there- fore, if the variation of the sentiment, without a variation of t ...
BOOK III PART III fix on some steady and general points of view; and always, in our thoughts, place ourselves in them, whatever ...
BOOK III PART III but still apply the terms expressive of our lik- ing or dislike, in the same manner, as if we re- mained in on ...
BOOK III PART III momentary appearances of things, and over- look our present situation. It is therefore from the influence of c ...
BOOK III PART III But however the general principle of our blame or praise may be corrected by those other principles, it is cer ...
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