The Theory of Moral Sentiments: To which is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of LanguagesG. Bell & Sons, 1767 - 538 páginas |
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... never did and never can carry us beyond our own person , and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his fenfations . Nei- ther can that faculty help us to this any other way , than by reprefenting to ...
... never did and never can carry us beyond our own person , and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his fenfations . Nei- ther can that faculty help us to this any other way , than by reprefenting to ...
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... never be great . With regard to the future it is perfectly fecure , and in its thought- leffnefs and want of forefight poffeffes an antidote against fear and anxiety , the great tormentors of the human breaft , from which reafon and ...
... never be great . With regard to the future it is perfectly fecure , and in its thought- leffnefs and want of forefight poffeffes an antidote against fear and anxiety , the great tormentors of the human breaft , from which reafon and ...
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... never feel too much for those who have fuffered fo dread- ful a calamity . The tribute of our fellow- feeling feems doubly due to them now when they are in danger of being forgot by every body and , by the vain honours which we pay to ...
... never feel too much for those who have fuffered fo dread- ful a calamity . The tribute of our fellow- feeling feems doubly due to them now when they are in danger of being forgot by every body and , by the vain honours which we pay to ...
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... never found a fingle perfon who differed from us , though we , no doubt , muft approve of them , yet he seems to deferve no praife or admiration on account of them . But when they not only coincide with our own , but lead and direct our ...
... never found a fingle perfon who differed from us , though we , no doubt , muft approve of them , yet he seems to deferve no praife or admiration on account of them . But when they not only coincide with our own , but lead and direct our ...
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... never conceive , for what has befallen another , that degree of paffion which natu- rally animates the perfon principally con- cerned . That imaginary change of fituation , upon which their fympathy is founded , is but but momentary ...
... never conceive , for what has befallen another , that degree of paffion which natu- rally animates the perfon principally con- cerned . That imaginary change of fituation , upon which their fympathy is founded , is but but momentary ...
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Página 436 - I shall in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government and of the different revolutions they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society...
Página 229 - 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 213 - ... what is it which prompts the generous upon all occasions, and the mean upon many, to sacrifice their own interests to the greater interests of others? It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counter-acting the strongest impulses of self-love.
Página 410 - ... 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 147 - Society, however, cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one -another.
Página 274 - 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 16 - WHEN the original passions of the person principally concerned are in perfect concord with the sympathetic emotions of the spectator, they necessarily appear to this last just and proper, and suitable to their objects ; and, on the contrary, when, upon bringing the case home to himself, he finds that they do not coincide with what he feels, they necessarily appear to him unjust and improper, and unsuitable to the causes which excite them.
Página 95 - In all governments, accordingly, even in monarchies, the highest offices are generally possessed, and the whole detail of the administration conducted, by men who were educated in the middle and inferior ranks of life, who have been carried forward by their own industry and abilities...
Página 3 - 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; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Página 438 - ... new objects the same name by which they had been accustomed to express the similar object they were first acquainted with. The new objects had none of them any name of its own, but each of them exactly resembled another object which had such an appellation.