BOOK II PART III
least a passion so like it, that they are scarcely
to be distinguished.
I have here confined myself to the examina-
tion of hope and fear in their most simple and
natural situation, without considering all the
variations they may receive from the mixture of
different views and reflections. Terror, conster-
nation, astonishment, anxiety, and other pas-
sions of that kind, are nothing but different
species and degrees of fear. It is easy to imag-
ine how a different situation of the object, or
a different turn of thought, may change even
the sensation of a passion; and this may in gen-
eral account for all the particular sub-divisions
of the other affections, as well as of fear. Love
may shew itself in the shape of tenderness,
friendship, intimacy, esteem, good-will, and in
many other appearances; which at the bottom