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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... sufferer . The mob , when they are at a dancer on the slack - rope , naturally writhe and tw balance their own bodies , as they see him do , and as th that they themselves must do if in his situation . " Th thing takes place , according ...
... sufferer . The mob , when they are at a dancer on the slack - rope , naturally writhe and tw balance their own bodies , as they see him do , and as th that they themselves must do if in his situation . " Th thing takes place , according ...
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... sufferer . The case is somewhat similar wi passions which take their origin from a particular turn of the imagination . In the case of the unsocial passions of hatred and rese the sympathy of the spectator is divided between the per ...
... sufferer . The case is somewhat similar wi passions which take their origin from a particular turn of the imagination . In the case of the unsocial passions of hatred and rese the sympathy of the spectator is divided between the per ...
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... sufferer whom I have injured ; and I feel myself a just object of indignation to mankind . " Such , says Mr. Smith , " is the nature of that sentiment which is pro- perly called remorse . It is made up of shame from the sense of the ...
... sufferer whom I have injured ; and I feel myself a just object of indignation to mankind . " Such , says Mr. Smith , " is the nature of that sentiment which is pro- perly called remorse . It is made up of shame from the sense of the ...
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... sufferer , that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels , may be demonstrated by many obvious observations , if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself . When we see a stroke aimed , and just ready ...
... sufferer , that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels , may be demonstrated by many obvious observations , if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself . When we see a stroke aimed , and just ready ...
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... sufferer . Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow - feeling with the sorrow of others . Sympathy , though its meaning was , perhaps , originally the same , may now , however , without much impropriety , be made ...
... sufferer . Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow - feeling with the sorrow of others . Sympathy , though its meaning was , perhaps , originally the same , may now , however , without much impropriety , be made ...
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actions ADAM SMITH admiration affection agreeable altogether appear applause approve arises attention beauty behaviour beneficence body breast called cerned character conceive conduct contempt contrary crime David Hume degree demerit deserve desire disagreeable distress dreadful Duke of Buccleuch duty emotions endeavour enter equitable maxim esteem excite favour feel fellow-feeling fortune friends gratitude greatest grief happiness honour human nature hurt imagination impartial spectator impropriety indignation injury injustice interest judge judgment justice kind mankind manner ment merit mind misfortune moral sentiments motives neighbour never observed occasions ourselves pain particular passions pathy perfect perhaps perly person principally concerned Philoctetes pleasure praise principles proper object propriety punishment racter regard render resentment respect rules savage nations scarce seems seldom self-command sense sensibility senti situation Smith society sorrow sufferer sympathy Theory of Moral thing thought tion tranquillity tural University of Glasgow virtue Voltaire weakness Wealth of Nations
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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...