BOOK III PART III
others, or to the person himself, or which is
agreeable to others, or to the person himself.
One may, perhaps, be surprized. that amidst
all these interests and pleasures, we should for-
get our own, which touch us so nearly on ev-
ery other occasion. But we shall easily satisfy
ourselves on this head, when we consider, that
every particular person s pleasure and interest
being different, it is impossible men coued ever
agree in their sentiments and judgments, un-
less they chose some common point of view,
from which they might survey their object, and
which might cause it to appear the same to all
of them. Now in judging of characters, the only
interest or pleasure, which appears the same to
every spectator, is that of the person himself,
whose character is examined; or that of per-
sons, who have a connexion with him. And
though such interests and pleasures touch us