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 LanguagesA. Finley, 1817 - 598 páginas |
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... sort of sympathy with the resentment of him who suffers it , 112 Chap IV . Recapitulation of the foregoing chapters , Chap . V. The analysis of the sense of Merit and Demerit , 115 117 SECTION II . OF JUSTICE AND BENEFICENCE , 125 Chap ...
... sort of sympathy with the resentment of him who suffers it , 112 Chap IV . Recapitulation of the foregoing chapters , Chap . V. The analysis of the sense of Merit and Demerit , 115 117 SECTION II . OF JUSTICE AND BENEFICENCE , 125 Chap ...
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... sort of sympathy , but before we are acquainted with what gave occasion to them , serve rather to disgust and provoke us against them . The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperatè us against himself than against ...
... sort of sympathy , but before we are acquainted with what gave occasion to them , serve rather to disgust and provoke us against them . The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperatè us against himself than against ...
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... sort of pleasantry is upon most oc- sions capable of making us laugh , and we observe this is one of that kind . We approve , therefore , → laughter of the company , and feel that it is natur . and suitable to its object ; because ...
... sort of pleasantry is upon most oc- sions capable of making us laugh , and we observe this is one of that kind . We approve , therefore , → laughter of the company , and feel that it is natur . and suitable to its object ; because ...
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... sort of disturbance . We ourselves cannot then enter into the anxiety and anguish which we had before conceived . An unguard- ed word from a friend will occasion a more durable uneasiness . The agony which this creates is by no means ...
... sort of disturbance . We ourselves cannot then enter into the anxiety and anguish which we had before conceived . An unguard- ed word from a friend will occasion a more durable uneasiness . The agony which this creates is by no means ...
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... sort of middle place between them : is never either so graceful as is sometimes the one set , nor is ever so odious as is sometimes the other . Grief and joy , when conceived upon account of our own private good or bad fortune ...
... sort of middle place between them : is never either so graceful as is sometimes the one set , nor is ever so odious as is sometimes the other . Grief and joy , when conceived upon account of our own private good or bad fortune ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action admiration affection agreeable altogether appear applause approve Aristotle astress aversion behaviour beneficence bestowed blame body breast cern character Cicero conceive concerning conduct contempt contrary crimes degree demerit deserve desire disagreeable disapprove distress dreadful emotions endeavour enter equitable maxim esteem excite exertion favour feel fellow-feeling fortune frequently friends gratitude greatest guilty happiness hatred heart honour horror human human nature hurt imagination impartial spectator indignation injury injustice innocent irreligion judge judgment justice kind less magnanimity mankind manner ment merit mind misfortune mortified motives natural neral ness never occasions ourselves pain Parmenio passions pathy perfect perhaps perity person Plato pleasure pleasure to burn praise praise-worthiness principle proper object propriety punishment regard render resentment respect rules scarce seems seldom self-command sense sensible sentiments sion situation society sometimes sorrow spect sufferer superior sympa thing thought Timoleon tion tranquillity trepanning tural vanity virtue Voltaire weakness
Pasajes populares
Página 239 - 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...
Página 1 - 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 309 - He will accommodate as well as he can his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people, and will remedy as well as he can the inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to.
Página 234 - The poor man's son, whom heaven in its anger has visited with ambition, when he begins to look around him, admires the condition of the rich. He finds the cottage of his father too small for his accommodation, and fancies he should be lodged more at his ease in a palace. He is displeased with being obliged to walk afoot, or to endure the fatigue of riding on horseback.
Página 285 - In the steadiness of his industry and frugality, in his steadily sacrificing the ease and enjoyment of the present moment for the probable expectation of the still greater ease and enjoyment of a more distant but more lasting period of time, the prudent man is always both supported and rewarded by the entire approbation of the impartial spectator, and of the representative of the impartial spectator, — the man within the breast.
Página 157 - Nature, when she formed man for society, endowed him with an original desire to please, and an original aversion to offend his brethren. She taught him to feel pleasure in their favourable, and pain in their unfavourable regard.
Página 209 - Our continual observations upon the conduct of others insensibly lead us to form to ourselves certain general rules concerning what is fit and proper either to be done or to be avoided.
Página 147 - We can never survey our own sentiments and motives, we can never form any judgment concerning them ; unless we remove ourselves, as it were, from our own natural station, and endeavour to view them as at a certain distance from us. But we can do this in no other way than by endeavouring to view them with the eyes of other people, or as other people are likely to view them.
Página 419 - ... conclusion, that private vices are public benefits. If the love of magnificence, a taste for the elegant arts and improvements of human life, for whatever is agreeable in dress, furniture, or equipage, for architecture, statuary, painting, and music, is to be regarded as luxury, sensuality, and ostentation, even in those whose situation allows, without any inconveniency, the indulgence of those passions, it is certain that luxury, sensuality, and ostentation are public benefits...