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... evil ; and to flatter my vanity by telling me that all the godly in Scotland abuse me for my account of John Knox and the Reformation , " & c . The invitation referred to by Hume in this letter to travel with the Duke of Buccleuch came ...
... evil ; and to flatter my vanity by telling me that all the godly in Scotland abuse me for my account of John Knox and the Reformation , " & c . The invitation referred to by Hume in this letter to travel with the Duke of Buccleuch came ...
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... evil , for our imagina- tion lends itself more readily to sympathize with the misfor- tunes affecting the imaginations of others , than is possible in the case of the sufferings of their bodies . Our imagi- nation moulds itself more ...
... evil , for our imagina- tion lends itself more readily to sympathize with the misfor- tunes affecting the imaginations of others , than is possible in the case of the sufferings of their bodies . Our imagi- nation moulds itself more ...
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... evil on the person who is guilty of it , and of making him grieve in his turn - arises from the sym- pathetic indignation which boils up in our breast whenever we thoroughly bring home to ourselves the case of the sufferer . as Nor is ...
... evil on the person who is guilty of it , and of making him grieve in his turn - arises from the sym- pathetic indignation which boils up in our breast whenever we thoroughly bring home to ourselves the case of the sufferer . as Nor is ...
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... evil , it provokes no feeling of sympathetic resentment . Take a case of the blackest ingratitude , where a man fails to recompense his benefactor , when the latter stands in great need of his assist- ance . Every impartial spectator ...
... evil , it provokes no feeling of sympathetic resentment . Take a case of the blackest ingratitude , where a man fails to recompense his benefactor , when the latter stands in great need of his assist- ance . Every impartial spectator ...
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... evil done by an act , the demerit of an act may be measured by the evil it causes . Death being the greatest evil one man can do to another , and consequently incurring the highest indignation from those connected with the slain man ...
... evil done by an act , the demerit of an act may be measured by the evil it causes . Death being the greatest evil one man can do to another , and consequently incurring the highest indignation from those connected with the slain man ...
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