The Works of Adam Smith: The theory of moral sentimentsT. Cadell, 1812 |
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Página 59
... esteem , all the social and benevolent affections , when expreffed in the countenance or behaviour , even towards thofe who are not peculiarly connected with ourselves , please the indifferent fpectator upon almost every occafion . His ...
... esteem , all the social and benevolent affections , when expreffed in the countenance or behaviour , even towards thofe who are not peculiarly connected with ourselves , please the indifferent fpectator upon almost every occafion . His ...
Página 61
... esteem , where the parents and children are companions for one another , without any other difference than what is made by respectful affection on the one fide , and kind indulgence on the other ; where freedom and fondnefs , mutual ...
... esteem , where the parents and children are companions for one another , without any other difference than what is made by respectful affection on the one fide , and kind indulgence on the other ; where freedom and fondnefs , mutual ...
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... esteem of all . If the chief part of human happiness arifes from the confcioufnefs of being beloved , as I believe it does , thofe fud- den changes of fortune feldom contribute much to happiness . He is happiest who advances more ...
... esteem of all . If the chief part of human happiness arifes from the confcioufnefs of being beloved , as I believe it does , thofe fud- den changes of fortune feldom contribute much to happiness . He is happiest who advances more ...
Página 89
... esteem of his own age , and have drawn , even from pofterity , a good deal of refpect for his memory . Compared with thefe , in his own times , and in his own prefence , no other virtue , it feems , appeared to have any merit . Know ...
... esteem of his own age , and have drawn , even from pofterity , a good deal of refpect for his memory . Compared with thefe , in his own times , and in his own prefence , no other virtue , it feems , appeared to have any merit . Know ...
Página 97
... esteem and admiration . No behaviour in the other can render him agreeable . The fympathy of the fpectators fupports him in the one cafe , and faves him from that fhame , that confcioufnefs that his mifery is felt by himself only ...
... esteem and admiration . No behaviour in the other can render him agreeable . The fympathy of the fpectators fupports him in the one cafe , and faves him from that fhame , that confcioufnefs that his mifery is felt by himself only ...
Términos y frases comunes
actions admiration affections againſt agreeable almoſt altogether appear approbation arifes averfion becauſe behaviour breaſt cafe caufe character circumftances conduct confequence confider confiderable confifts conftitutes contrary deferve defire difagreeable difpofed eafily eaſe endeavour Epicurus eſtabliſhed eſteem exceffive excite expofed exprefs faid fame manner faſhion fcarce fecurity feel feems feldom felf-command felves fenfe fenfibility fentiments fhould firft firſt fituation fociety fome degree fome meaſure fometimes forrow friendſhip ftate ftill fubjects fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofed fupport fyftem fympathy gratitude greateſt happineſs higheſt himſelf honour human imagination impartial fpectator intereft itſelf juft juftice laft leaſt lefs mankind ment merit mifery misfortune moft moral moſt muft muſt natural neceffarily neceffary never notwithſtanding obferved occafions ourſelves paffions pain perfon philofophers pleaſed pleaſure praiſe principle proper object propriety puniſhment purpoſe racters reafon refentment refpect regard render rules ſeems thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion univerfal virtue weakneſs whofe
Pasajes populares
Página 82 - It is the vanity, not the ease, or the pleasure, which interests us. But vanity is always founded upon the belief of our being the object of attention and approbation.
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 276 - 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 294 - 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 3 - That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the 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.
Página 318 - The rest he is obliged to distribute among those who prepare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be consumed...
Página 30 - ... the great, the awful, and respectable, the virtues of self-denial, of self-government, of that command of the passions which subjects all the movements of our nature to what our own dignity and honour, and the propriety of our own conduct, require, take their origin from the other.
Página 416 - The administration of the great system of the universe, however, the care of the universal happiness of all rational and sensible beings, is the business of God and not of man. To man is allotted a much humbler department, but one much more suitable to the weakness of his powers, and to the narrowness of his comprehension; the care of his own happiness, of that of his family, his friends, his country...
Página 10 - BUT whatever may be the cause of sympathy, or however it may be excited, nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellowfeeling with all the emotions of our own breast ; nor are we ever so much shocked as by the appearance of the contrary.