The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Or, An Essay 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 is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of LanguagesJ. Beatty and C. Jackson, 1777 - 426 стор. |
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... measure him , and thence form fome idea of his fenfa- tions and even feel fomething which , though weaker in degree , is not altogether unlike them . His agonies , when they are thus brought home to ourselves , when we have thus adopted ...
... measure him , and thence form fome idea of his fenfa- tions and even feel fomething which , though weaker in degree , is not altogether unlike them . His agonies , when they are thus brought home to ourselves , when we have thus adopted ...
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... measure , and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer . The mob , when they are gazing at a dancer on the flack rope , naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bo- dies , as they fee him do , and as they feel that they themselves ...
... measure , and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer . The mob , when they are gazing at a dancer on the flack rope , naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bo- dies , as they fee him do , and as they feel that they themselves ...
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... measure . When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amufement in reading it by our- felves , we can ftill take pleasure in reading it to a companion . To him it has all the graces of novel- ty ; we enter ...
... measure . When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amufement in reading it by our- felves , we can ftill take pleasure in reading it to a companion . To him it has all the graces of novel- ty ; we enter ...
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... measure renew their grief . They awaken in their memory the remembrance of thofe circumstances which occafion their affliction . Their tears accord- ingly flow fafter than before , and they are apt to abandon themselves to all the ...
... measure renew their grief . They awaken in their memory the remembrance of thofe circumstances which occafion their affliction . Their tears accord- ingly flow fafter than before , and they are apt to abandon themselves to all the ...
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... measures by which he judges of mine . To approve of another man's opinions is to adopt thofe opinions , and to adopt them is to approve of them . If the fame arguments which convince you convince me likewife , I neceffarily approve of ...
... measures by which he judges of mine . To approve of another man's opinions is to adopt thofe opinions , and to adopt them is to approve of them . If the fame arguments which convince you convince me likewife , I neceffarily approve of ...
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Сторінка 242 - 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 361 - ... actions ; thirdly, we observe that his conduct has been agreeable to the general rules by which those two sympathies generally act ; and, last of all, when we consider such actions, as making a part of a system of behaviour which tends to promote the happiness either of the individual or of the society, they appear to derive a beauty from this utility, not unlike that which we ascribe to any well-contrived machine.
Сторінка 203 - 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 4 - We sympathize even with the dead, and overlooking what is of real importance in their situation, that awful futurity which awaits them, we are chiefly affected by those circumstances which strike our senses, but can have no influence upon their happiness.
Сторінка 421 - O how oft shall he On faith and changed Gods complain, and seas Rough with black winds, and storms Unwonted shall admire ! Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee, of flattering gales Unmindful. Hapless they To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me, in my vow'd Picture, the sacred wall declares to have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of sea.
Сторінка 220 - 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 363 - ... may be compared to the rules of grammar ; the rules of the other virtues to the rules which critics lay down for the attainment of what is sublime and elegant in composition.
Сторінка 24 - We are disgusted with that clamorous grief which, without any delicacy, calls upon our compassion with sighs and tears and importunate lamentations. But we reverence that reserved, that silent and majestic sorrow, which discovers itself only in the swelling of the eyes, in the quivering of the lips and cheeks, and in the distant, but affecting coldness of the whole behaviour.
Сторінка 179 - When I endeavour to examine my own conduct, when I endeavour to pass sentence upon it, and either to approve or condemn it, it is evident that, in all such cases, I divide myself...