How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Lives of Eminent Persons - Página 11por Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 571 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...seventeenth century, who had borrowed it from the school of Epicurus, and who bequeathed it as a theme of everlasting cavil and epigrammatic paradox to that...kind is pity or compassion, words appropriated to sig nify our fellow feeling with the sorrow of others." "Sympathy," he addsf " though its meaning was... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 páginas
...those with whom we are upon terms of intimacy and friendship. " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1836 - 388 páginas
...which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though lie derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it or are made to conceive it... | |
| William Harness - 1841 - 128 páginas
...we shall find most sufficient reasons for believing that 2 " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others when we either see it, or are made to conceive it,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 páginas
...SECTION L OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY* CHAPTER I. Of Sympathy. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive... | |
| 1860 - 880 páginas
...Smith's " Theory " was the earliest reaction. He says, — " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." " To denote this fellow-feeling with any passion whatever," — he uses the term sympathy — which... | |
| 1860 - 444 páginas
...Smith's " Theory " was the earliest reaction. He says, —" How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it... | |
| Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - 1861 - 526 páginas
...adopt the manners and prefer the interests of those they lived with. There are principles of man's nature which interest him in the fortune of others,...render their happiness necessary to him, though he derive nothing from itbut the pleasure of seeing it. The sociability of the Irish, their greater ease... | |
| Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 páginas
...SEC. I.— OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY. CHAP. I.— Of Sympathy. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive... | |
| Cornelius Donovan - 1870 - 232 páginas
...and makes it the source of nearly every moral affection. " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it... | |
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