The Theory of Moral Sentiments: To which is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of LanguagesA. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell in Edinburgh; and sold, 1767 - 478 стор. |
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... say so , our own living souls in their inani- mated bodies , and thence conceiving what would be our emotions in this case . It is from this very illusion of the imagination , that the foresight of our own dissolution is so ter- rible ...
... say so , our own living souls in their inani- mated bodies , and thence conceiving what would be our emotions in this case . It is from this very illusion of the imagination , that the foresight of our own dissolution is so ter- rible ...
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... say they , conscious of his own weakness and of the need which he has for the assistance of others , rejoices whenever he observes that they adopt his own passions , because he is then assured of that assistance ; and grieves whenever ...
... say they , conscious of his own weakness and of the need which he has for the assistance of others , rejoices whenever he observes that they adopt his own passions , because he is then assured of that assistance ; and grieves whenever ...
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... little occasion which was given for them . The merit of his favourite , we say , is not so great , his misfortune is not so dreadful , his pro- provocation is not so extraordinary , as to justify so 20 Part I. Of PROPRIETY .
... little occasion which was given for them . The merit of his favourite , we say , is not so great , his misfortune is not so dreadful , his pro- provocation is not so extraordinary , as to justify so 20 Part I. Of PROPRIETY .
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... say ; perhaps , have approved of the vio- lence of his emotion , had the cause been in any respect proportioned to it . When we judge in this manner of any af- fection , as proportioned or disproportioned to the cause which excites it ...
... say ; perhaps , have approved of the vio- lence of his emotion , had the cause been in any respect proportioned to it . When we judge in this manner of any af- fection , as proportioned or disproportioned to the cause which excites it ...
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... say so , the sharpness of its natural tone , in order to reduce it to harmony and concord with the emotions of those who are about him . What they feel , will , indeed , always be , in some respects , different from what he feels , and ...
... say so , the sharpness of its natural tone , in order to reduce it to harmony and concord with the emotions of those who are about him . What they feel , will , indeed , always be , in some respects , different from what he feels , and ...
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Сторінка 272 - 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; and thus, without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
Сторінка 227 - 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.
Сторінка 10 - And from thence arises one of the most important principles in human nature, the dread of death, the great poison to the happiness, but the great restraint upon the injustice of mankind, which, while it afflicts and mortifies the individual, guards and protects the society.
Сторінка 268 - Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body, consisting of springs the most nice and delicate, which must be kept in order with the most anxious attention, and which in spite of all our care are ready every moment to burst into pieces, and to...
Сторінка 147 - In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce ; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual; and the propagation of the species.
Сторінка 246 - 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 314 - Fortune never exerted more cruelly her empire over mankind, than when she subjected those nations of heroes to the refuse of the jails of Europe, to wretches who possess the virtues neither of the countries which they come from, nor of those which they go to, and whose levity, brutality, and baseness, expose them to the contempt of the vanquished.
Сторінка 85 - The rich man glories in his riches, because he feels that they naturally draw upon him the attention of the world...
Сторінка 2 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.