The Theory of Moral Sentiments: To which is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of LanguagesA. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell in Edinburgh; and sold, 1767 - 478 páginas |
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... society , is not altogether without it . As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel , we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected , but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation ...
... society , is not altogether without it . As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel , we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected , but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation ...
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... society . CHA P. II . Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy . UT whatever may be the cause of sym- Ba pathy , or however it may be excited , nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow - feeling with all the emo- tions of ...
... society . CHA P. II . Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy . UT whatever may be the cause of sym- Ba pathy , or however it may be excited , nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow - feeling with all the emo- tions of ...
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... society . Though they will never be unisons , they may be concords , and this is all that is wanted or required . In order to produce this concord , as nature teaches the spectators to assume the circum- ftances of the person ...
... society . Though they will never be unisons , they may be concords , and this is all that is wanted or required . In order to produce this concord , as nature teaches the spectators to assume the circum- ftances of the person ...
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... Society and conversation , therefore , are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity , if , at any time , it has unfortunately lost it ; as well as the best preservatives of that equal and happy temper ...
... Society and conversation , therefore , are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity , if , at any time , it has unfortunately lost it ; as well as the best preservatives of that equal and happy temper ...
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... society im- pose upon the fair sex , with regard to this weakness , renders it more peculiarly distreff- ful in them , and , upon that very account , more deeply interesting . We are charmed with the love of Phædra , as it is expressed ...
... society im- pose upon the fair sex , with regard to this weakness , renders it more peculiarly distreff- ful in them , and , upon that very account , more deeply interesting . We are charmed with the love of Phædra , as it is expressed ...
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Página 272 - They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life which would have been made had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants; and thus, without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
Página 227 - THE regard to those general rules of conduct is what is properly called a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions.
Página 10 - And from thence arises one of the most important principles in human nature, the dread of death, the great poison to the happiness, but the great restraint upon the injustice of mankind, which, while it afflicts and mortifies the individual, guards and protects the society.
Página 268 - Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body, consisting of springs the most nice and delicate, which must be kept in order with the most anxious attention, and which in spite of all our care are ready every moment to burst into pieces, and to...
Página 147 - In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce ; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual; and the propagation of the species.
Página 246 - The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind ; and our neighbour as ourselves.
Página 30 - ... the great, the awful, and respectable, the virtues of self-denial, of self-government, of that command of the passions which subjects all the movements of our nature to what our own dignity and honour, and the propriety of our own conduct, require, take their origin from the other.
Página 314 - Fortune never exerted more cruelly her empire over mankind, than when she subjected those nations of heroes to the refuse of the jails of Europe, to wretches who possess the virtues neither of the countries which they come from, nor of those which they go to, and whose levity, brutality, and baseness, expose them to the contempt of the vanquished.
Página 85 - The rich man glories in his riches, because he feels that they naturally draw upon him the attention of the world...
Página 2 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.