The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves: To which is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of LanguagesJ. Beatty and C. Jackson, 1777 - 426 páginas |
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... still , more from torturing ourselves with conjectures about what it may be , yet our fellow- feeling is not very confiderable . Sympathy , therefore , does not arise so much from the view of the paffion , as from that of the fituation ...
... still , more from torturing ourselves with conjectures about what it may be , yet our fellow- feeling is not very confiderable . Sympathy , therefore , does not arise so much from the view of the paffion , as from that of the fituation ...
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... still more shocked by the want of it . How are the unfortunate relieved when they have found out a perfon to whom they can com- municate the cause of their forrow ? Upon his fym- pathy pathy they feem to disburthen themselves of a part ...
... still more shocked by the want of it . How are the unfortunate relieved when they have found out a perfon to whom they can com- municate the cause of their forrow ? Upon his fym- pathy pathy they feem to disburthen themselves of a part ...
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... still find fome entertainment in your conver- fation , even upon thofe very fubjects . But if you have either no fellow - feeling for the misfortunes I have met with , or none that bears any proportion to the grief which diftracts me ...
... still find fome entertainment in your conver- fation , even upon thofe very fubjects . But if you have either no fellow - feeling for the misfortunes I have met with , or none that bears any proportion to the grief which diftracts me ...
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... still , and fub- mits to infults , without attempting either to repel or to revenge them . We cannot enter into his indif- ference and infenfibility ; we call his behaviour mean- fpiritedness , and are as really provoked by it as by the ...
... still , and fub- mits to infults , without attempting either to repel or to revenge them . We cannot enter into his indif- ference and infenfibility ; we call his behaviour mean- fpiritedness , and are as really provoked by it as by the ...
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... still fomething difagreeable in the paffions themselves , which makes the appearance of them in other men the natural object of our averfion . The expreffion of anger towards any body prefent , if it exceeds a bare intimation that we ...
... still fomething difagreeable in the paffions themselves , which makes the appearance of them in other men the natural object of our averfion . The expreffion of anger towards any body prefent , if it exceeds a bare intimation that we ...
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Página 242 - 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 361 - ... actions ; thirdly, we observe that his conduct has been agreeable to the general rules by which those two sympathies generally act ; and, last of all, when we consider such actions, as making a part of a system of behaviour which tends to promote the happiness either of the individual or of the society, they appear to derive a beauty from this utility, not unlike that which we ascribe to any well-contrived machine.
Página 203 - 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 4 - We sympathize even with the dead, and overlooking what is of real importance in their situation, that awful futurity which awaits them, we are chiefly affected by those circumstances which strike our senses, but can have no influence upon their happiness.
Página 421 - O how oft shall he On faith and changed Gods complain, and seas Rough with black winds, and storms Unwonted shall admire ! Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee, of flattering gales Unmindful. Hapless they To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me, in my vow'd Picture, the sacred wall declares to have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of sea.
Página 220 - 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 363 - ... may be compared to the rules of grammar ; the rules of the other virtues to the rules which critics lay down for the attainment of what is sublime and elegant in composition.
Página 24 - We are disgusted with that clamorous grief which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations. But we reverence that reserved, that silent and majestic sorrow, which discovers itself only in the swelling of the eyes, in the quivering of the lips and cheeks, and in the distant, but affecting coldness of the whole behaviour.
Página 179 - When I endeavour to examine my own conduct, when I endeavour to pass sentence upon it, and either to approve or condemn it, it is evident that, in all such cases, I divide myself...