A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK III PART III more faintly than our own, yet being more con- stant and universal, they counter-ballance the latter even in p ...

BOOK III PART III SECTIONII. OFGREATNESS OFMIND It may now be proper to illustrate this gen- eral system of morals, by applying ...

BOOK III PART III In order to prove this, we must have recourse to two principles, which are very conspicuous in human nature. T ...

BOOK III PART III my sympathy gives equal force to his decision: And even his sentiments of his own merit make me consider him i ...

BOOK III PART III this passion is, the greater is the commotion. There must also be some passion or sentiment on the other side; ...

BOOK III PART III The second principle I shall take notice of is that of comparison, or the variation of our judgments concernin ...

BOOK III PART III another’s pleasure naturally gives us pleasure; and therefore produces pain, when compared with our own. His p ...

BOOK III PART III comparison will never have an equal efficacy, as if I were really on the shore^26 , and saw a ship at a distan ...

BOOK III PART III brace with a resolution to perish in each others arms: No man has so savage a heart as to reap any pleasure fr ...

BOOK III PART III pay our superiors, according to our foregoing reasonings on that passion (Book II. Part II. Sect. X.). Sometim ...

BOOK III PART III would not be mortified by that fiction: But when a man, whom we are really persuaded to be of inferior merit, ...

BOOK III PART III tensions. The necessary consequence of these princi- ples is, that pride, or an over-weaning conceit of oursel ...

BOOK III PART III demned by all mankind; as having a natu- ral tendency to cause uneasiness in others by means of comparison. An ...

BOOK III PART III quality to ourselves is a source of virtue, as well as its agreeableness to others; and it is certain, that no ...

BOOK III PART III applause, be sometimes disagreeable to oth- ers, it is always agreeable to ourselves; as on the other hand, mo ...

BOOK III PART III dignation in each other, not only by the im- mediate presence of so disagreeable a subject of comparison, but ...

BOOK III PART III to do themselves justice openly, in words, no more than other people; and even if they show a reserve and secr ...

BOOK III PART III of deference, even though they be our equals; to seem always the lowest and least in the company, where we are ...

BOOK III PART III is more indispensibly requisite to procure the esteem and approbation of mankind. There are certain deferences ...

BOOK III PART III ever have been established and authorized by custom, unless men were generally proud, and unless that passion ...