BOOK III PART III
insecure. The seeming tendencies of objects af-
fect the mind: And the emotions they excite
are of a like species with those, which proceed
from the real consequences of objects, but their
feeling is different. Nay, these emotions are so
different in their feeling, that they may often
be contrary, without destroying each other; as
when the fortifications of a city belonging to an
enemy are esteemed beautiful upon account of
their strength, though we coued wish that they
were entirely destroyed. The imagination ad-
heres to the general views of things, and distin-
guishes the feelings they produce, from those
which arise from our particular and momen-
tary situation.
If we examine the panegyrics that are com-
monly made of great men, we shall find, that
most of the qualities, which are attributed to