BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY.

THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS.

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 LANGUAGES.

BY

ADAM SMITH, LL.D., F.R.S.

NEW EDITION.

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR,

BY DUGALD STEWART.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1853.

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CONTENTS.

PART I.

Page

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OF THE PROPRIETY OF ACTION,

OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY,

CHAP. I. Of Sympathy,

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SECTION I.

II. Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy,

III. Of the Manner in which we judge of the Propriety or

Impropriety of the Affections of other Men, by

their concord or dissonance with our own,

IV. The same Subject continued,

V. Of the amiable and respectable Virtues,

ib.

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SECTION II.

)F THE DEGREES OF THE DIFFERENT PASSIONS WHICH ARE CONSIS-

TENT WITH PROPRIETY,

HAP. I. Of the Passions which take their origin from the Body, 33

II. Of those Passions which take their origin from a parti-