A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK III PART III fects, with those qualities which we call moral virtues, why should we make any distinction betwixt them? Thou ...

BOOK III PART III spectator. The characters of Caesar and Cato, as drawn by Sallust, are both of them virtuous, in the strictest ...

BOOK III PART III esteem: Wit and humour excite love^27 Those, who represent the distinction betwixt natural abilities and moral ...

BOOK III PART III title of moral virtues, are equally involuntary and necessary, with the qualities of the judg- ment and imagin ...

BOOK III PART III we denominate it vicious or virtuous. Now I believe no one will assert, that a quality can never produce pleas ...

BOOK III PART III though natural abilities and moral qualities be in the main on the same footing, there is, how- ever, this dif ...

BOOK III PART III urally praise or blame whatever pleases or dis- pleases them, they do not seem much to regard this distinction ...

BOOK III PART III ine. The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the ...

BOOK III PART III apprehension be most valuable? whether one, that at first view penetrates into a subject, but can perform noth ...

BOOK III PART III recollect, are esteemed valuable upon no other account, than their advantage in the conduct of life. It is the ...

BOOK III PART III from a sympathy with his gaiety. These qual- ities, therefore, being agreeable, they naturally beget love and ...

BOOK III PART III as a virtue; since it naturally renders us agree- able to others, and is a very considerable source of love an ...

BOOK III PART III ists account for all the sentiments of virtue by this sense. Their hypothesis is very plausible. Nothing but a ...

BOOK III PART III serve them separated in any person’s character, this imposes a kind of violence on our imagina- tion, and is d ...

BOOK III PART III nius and judgment. Yet to consider the mat- ter abstractedly, it would be difficult to give a reason, why the ...

BOOK III PART III to blame or praise. Before I leave this subject of natural abilities, I must observe, that, perhaps, one sourc ...

BOOK III PART III small cities and principalities: And the histo- ries of wars and revolutions more than those of peace and orde ...

BOOK III PART III SECTIONV. SOMEFARTHERREFLECTIONS CONCERNING THENATURALVIRTUES It has been observed, in treating of the pas- si ...

BOOK III PART III body and of fortune, produce a pain or plea- sure from the very same principles. The ten- dency of any object ...

BOOK III PART III nary vigour of that kind, are well received by the fair sex, and naturally engage the affections even of those ...