The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principes 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. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1792 - 462 páginas |
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... imagination . When a critic examines the work of any of the great masters in poetry or painting , he may fometimes examine it by an idea of per- fection , in his own mind , which neither that nor any other human work will ever come up ...
... imagination . When a critic examines the work of any of the great masters in poetry or painting , he may fometimes examine it by an idea of per- fection , in his own mind , which neither that nor any other human work will ever come up ...
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... can be but little affected by the alterations which are brought about upon that of my companion : but my imagination is more ductile , and more • more readily affumes , if I may fay fo Se & t . II . Of PROPRIETY . 59.
... can be but little affected by the alterations which are brought about upon that of my companion : but my imagination is more ductile , and more • more readily affumes , if I may fay fo Se & t . II . Of PROPRIETY . 59.
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... imaginations can more readily mould themselves upon his imagination , than our bodies can mould themfelves upon his body . The loss of a leg may generally be re- garded as a more real calamity than the loss of a mistress . It would be a ...
... imaginations can more readily mould themselves upon his imagination , than our bodies can mould themfelves upon his body . The loss of a leg may generally be re- garded as a more real calamity than the loss of a mistress . It would be a ...
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... imagination . As it is an idea , therefore , which occafions our un- eafinefs , till time and other accidents have in some measure effaced it from our me- mory , the imagination continues to fret and rankle within , from the thought of ...
... imagination . As it is an idea , therefore , which occafions our un- eafinefs , till time and other accidents have in some measure effaced it from our me- mory , the imagination continues to fret and rankle within , from the thought of ...
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... imagination , which repre- fents , with an uncertainty and fluctuation that increases our anxiety , not what we really feel , but what we may hereafter poffibly fuffer . The gout or the tooth - ach , though exquifitely painful , excite ...
... imagination , which repre- fents , with an uncertainty and fluctuation that increases our anxiety , not what we really feel , but what we may hereafter poffibly fuffer . The gout or the tooth - ach , though exquifitely painful , excite ...
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actions admiration affection againſt agreeable almoſt appear applauſe approve arifes becauſe behaviour breaſt cafe cauſe circumftances compaffion conduct confequences confider confiderable confifts contrary crimes defire degree deſerve deteftable difpofed diſagreeable eaſily endeavour eſteem excite fame manner fatisfaction fcarce fecurity feel feems feldom felf-command fellow-feeling felves fenfe fenfibility fentiments ferve feveral fhould fion firft firſt fituation fociety fome meaſure fometimes forrow fortune fpectator friends ftill fuch fufferer fuperior fupport fure fympathy gratitude greateſt happineſs higheſt himſelf human imagination intereft itſelf juft juftice juſt laft leaſt lefs mankind ment merit mifery misfortune moft moſt muft muſt natural neceffarily neceffary nefs never obferved occafions ourſelves paffions pain pathy perfon pleaſed pleaſure poffible praiſe preſent proper object propriety puniſhment purpoſe reaſon refentment regard render reſpect rules ſcarce ſeems ſenſe ſhould ſtill ſuch themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion tural uſeful virtue weakneſs whofe whoſe
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Página 450 - 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 3 - Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They 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 sensations.
Página 212 - In order to enforce the observation of justice, therefore, Nature has implanted in the human breast that consciousness of ill-desert, those terrors of merited punishment which attend upon its violation, as the great safeguards of the association of mankind, to protect the weak, to curb the violent, and to chastise the guilty.
Página 210 - Society, however, cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another.
Página 276 - When I endeavour to examine my own conduct, when I endeavour to pass sentence upon it, and either to approve or condemn it, it is evident that, in all such cases, I divide myself, as it were, into two persons ; and that I, the examiner and judge, represent a different character from that other I, the person whose conduct is examined into, and judged of.
Página 328 - 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 counteracting the strongest impulses of self-love. It is a stronger power, a more forcible motive, which exerts itself upon such occasions. It is reason, principle, conscience, the inhabitant of the breast, the man within, the great judge and arbiter of our conduct.
Página 44 - ... 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 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 ; and when it .does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Página 214 - When by natural principles we are led to advance those ends which a refined and enlightened reason would recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God.
Página 155 - In many governments the candidates for the highest stations are above the law; and, if they can attain the object of their ambition, they have no fear of being called to account for the means by which they acquired it. They often...