THE ORY

O F

MORAL SENTIMENTS;

O R,

A NE SS A Y

TOWARDS

An ANALYSIS of the PRINCIPLES by which MEN naturally
judge concerning the CONDUCT and CHARACTER, first of
their NEIGHBOURS, and afterwards of THEMSELVES,

TO WHICH 19 ADDED,

A DISSERTATION

ON THE

ORIGIN OF

LANGUAGES.

BY ADAM SMITH, L. L. D. F. R. S.

Formerly Profeffor of Philofophy in the University of Glasgow; and Author
of the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations.

THE SIXTH EDITION.

DUBLIN:

Printed for J. BEATTY and C. JACKSON, No. 32, SKINNER-ROW.

M,DCC,LXXVII.

YFE

PUBLIC LIBRARY,
150297

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1899

CHAP. II. Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy

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CHAP. III. Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or diffonance with our own 14 CHAP. IV. The fame fubject continued

19

CHAP. V. Of the amiable and refpectable virtues 27

SECTION II.

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

CHAP. I.

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Of the paffions which take their origin from

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the body CHAP. II. Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination 41