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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... esteem ; passions with which , of all others , for reasons which shall be explained immediately , we have the greatest propensity to sympathize , even not- withstanding we are sensible that they are , in some measure , excessive . The ...
... esteem ; passions with which , of all others , for reasons which shall be explained immediately , we have the greatest propensity to sympathize , even not- withstanding we are sensible that they are , in some measure , excessive . The ...
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... esteem Othello ; and delight as much in the punishment of the one , as we are grieved at the distress of the other . But though man- kind have so strong a fellow - feeling with the injuries that are done to their brethren , they do not ...
... esteem Othello ; and delight as much in the punishment of the one , as we are grieved at the distress of the other . But though man- kind have so strong a fellow - feeling with the injuries that are done to their brethren , they do not ...
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... esteem , where the pa- rents and children are companions for one ano- ther , without any other difference than what is made by respectful affection on the one side , and tentment . and kind indulgence on the other ; where 62 Part I OF ...
... esteem , where the pa- rents and children are companions for one ano- ther , without any other difference than what is made by respectful affection on the one side , and tentment . and kind indulgence on the other ; where 62 Part I OF ...
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... esteem of all . If the chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being beloved , as I believe it does , those sudden changes of fortune seldom contribute much to happiness . He is happiest who ad- vances more ...
... esteem of all . If the chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being beloved , as I believe it does , those sudden changes of fortune seldom contribute much to happiness . He is happiest who ad- vances more ...
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... esteem of his own age , and have drawn , even from posterity , a good deal of respect for his memory . Com- pared with these , in his own times , and in his own presence , no other virtue , it seems , appeared to have any merit ...
... esteem of his own age , and have drawn , even from posterity , a good deal of respect for his memory . Com- pared with these , in his own times , and in his own presence , no other virtue , it seems , appeared to have any merit ...
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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.