THEORY

of

MORAL SENTIMENTS.

To which is added

A Dissertation on the Origin of LANGUAGE S.

By ADAM SMITH, L. L. D.

The THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for A. Millar,
A. Kincaid and J. Bell in Edinburgh;
And sold by T. Cadell in the Strand.
MDCCLXVII.

LBRA

PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ACTOR, LENOX AND TILBEN FOUNDATIONS. 1699.

CHAP. II. Of the Pleasure of mutual Sym-
pathy

10

CHAP. III. Of the manner in which we judge
of the propriety or impropriety of the af-
fections of other men, by their concord or
diffonance with our own

16

CHAP. IV: The fame fubject continued 21
CHAP. V. Of the amiable and respectable vir-

tues

SECTION II.

30

Of the degrees of the different paffions which
are confiftent with propriety

37

CHAP. I. Of the paflions which take their
origin from the body

38

CHAP. II. Of those passions which take their
origin from a particular turn or babit of the
imagination

CHAP. III. Of the unfocial paffions

45

CHAP. IV. Of the focial paffions

CHAP. V. Of the selfish paffions

SECTION

60
64

III.

Of the effects of profperity and adverfity upon
the judgment of mankind with regard to
the propriety of action; and why it is more
eafy to obtain their approbation in the one
ftate than in the other

CHAP. I. That though our fympathy with
forrow is generally a more lively fenfation than
our Sympathy with joy, it commonly falls
much more fhort of the violence of what is
naturally felt by the perfon principally-con-

cerned

CHAP. II. Of the origin of ambition, and of
the diftinction of ranks

CHAP. III. Of the ftoical philofophy

83

99

Of Merit and Demerit; or of the
objects of reward and punishment.

SECTION I.

Of the fenfe of merit and demerit

109

CHAP. I. That whatever appears to be the pro-
per object of gratitude, appears to dejerve re-
ward; and that, in the fame manner, what-
ever appears to be the proper object of resent-
ment, appears to deferve punishment