A Treatise of Human Nature

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BOOK I PART III


as soon as the circumstance is mentioned, that
touches the memory, the very same ideas now
appear in a new light, and have, in a manner,
a different feeling from what they had before.
Without any other alteration, beside that of the
feeling, they become immediately ideas of the
memory, and are assented to.


Since, therefore, the imagination can repre-
sent all the same objects that the memory can
offer to us, and since those faculties are only
distinguished by the different feeling of the
ideas they present, it may be proper to consider
what is the nature of that feeling. And here I
believe every one will readily agree with me,
that the ideas of the memory are more strong
and lively than those of the fancy.


A painter, who intended to represent a pas-
sion or emotion of any kind, would endeavour

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