The theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the principles by which men naturally judge. To which is added, A dissertation on the origin of languages1853 |
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... gratitude appears to deserve reward ; and that , in the same manner , whatever appears to be the proper object of resentment appears to de- serve punishment , · 93 ib . 33 94 II . Of the proper Objects of Gratitude and Resentment , 97 ...
... gratitude appears to deserve reward ; and that , in the same manner , whatever appears to be the proper object of resentment appears to de- serve punishment , · 93 ib . 33 94 II . Of the proper Objects of Gratitude and Resentment , 97 ...
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... gratitude could dictate , during the long period of sixty years . * Mr. Smith , the father , was a native of Aberdeenshire , and , in the earlier part of his life , practised at Edinburgh as a writer to the signet . He was afterwards ...
... gratitude could dictate , during the long period of sixty years . * Mr. Smith , the father , was a native of Aberdeenshire , and , in the earlier part of his life , practised at Edinburgh as a writer to the signet . He was afterwards ...
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... gratitude or of a resentment , which every reasonable man is ready to adopt and sympathise with . It is , however , very necessary to observe , that we do not • thoroughly sympathize with the gratitude of one man towards c 2 OF ADAM ...
... gratitude or of a resentment , which every reasonable man is ready to adopt and sympathise with . It is , however , very necessary to observe , that we do not • thoroughly sympathize with the gratitude of one man towards c 2 OF ADAM ...
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Adam Smith. • thoroughly sympathize with the gratitude of one man towards another , merely because this other has been the cause of his good fortune , unless he has been the cause of it from motives which we entirely oppose . Our sense ...
Adam Smith. • thoroughly sympathize with the gratitude of one man towards another , merely because this other has been the cause of his good fortune , unless he has been the cause of it from motives which we entirely oppose . Our sense ...
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... gratitude of those who receive the benefit of his actions ; thirdly , we observe that his conduct has been agreeable to the general rules by which those two sympathies generally act ; and , lastly , when we consider such actions as ...
... gratitude of those who receive the benefit of his actions ; thirdly , we observe that his conduct has been agreeable to the general rules by which those two sympathies generally act ; and , lastly , when we consider such actions as ...
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according actions admiration affection agreeable altogether appear applause approbation Aristotle attention beauty behaviour beneficence benevolence breast called casuistry casuists character Cicero conceive conduct consider contempt contrary death declensions degree deserve desire disagreeable dreadful emotions endeavour Epictetus Epicurus esteem excite express favour feel fellow-feeling fortune frequently friends gratitude greater greatest happiness honour human nature imagination impartial spectator impersonal verbs indignation injustice interest judge justice kind language mankind manner ment merit mind misfortunes moral sentiments motives never noun substantive observed occasions ourselves pain particular passions pathy perfect perhaps perly philosophers Plato pleasure praise prepositions principles proper object propriety prudence punishment qualities racter reason regard render resentment respect rules savage nations scarce seems seldom self-command sense sensibility situation Smith society sometimes sorrow species Stoics suffer superior supposed sympathy thing tion tural University of Glasgow vanity verbs virtue virtuous weakness Wealth of Nations words
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Página 4 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm...
Página 3 - 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.
Página l - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Página 262 - It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. It is this which first prompted them to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human life; which have entirely changed the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forests of nature into agreeable and fertile plains, and made the trackless and barren ocean a new fund of subsistence, and the...
Página 241 - 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 lvi - By such maxims as these, however, nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours. Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its own loss. Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations, as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.
Página 340 - When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear.
Página 341 - How well has he painted the man of system, and how many features of this portrait have we recognised in Mr. Bentham, and others of our day ! — " He is apt to be very wise in his own conceit, and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it.
Página 71 - To be observed, to be attended to, to be taken notice of with sympathy, complacency and approbation, are all the advantages which we can propose to derive from it. It is vanity, not the ease, or the pleasure, which interests us.
Página 505 - The assignation of particular names to denote particular objects, that is, the institution of nouns' substantive, would, probably, be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. Two savages, who had never been taught to speak, but had been bred up remote from the societies of men, would naturally begin to form that language, by which...