The Theory of Moral Sentiments: To which is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of LanguagesG. Bell & Sons, 1767 - 538 стор. |
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... according to their own principles , both for this pleafure and this pain . Man , fay they , conscious of his own weakness and of the need which he has for the affiftance of others , rejoices whenever he obferves that they adopt his own ...
... according to their own principles , both for this pleafure and this pain . Man , fay they , conscious of his own weakness and of the need which he has for the affiftance of others , rejoices whenever he obferves that they adopt his own ...
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... according as there is more or less difproportion between his fen- timents and mine , I muft incur a greater or lefs degree of his disapprobation and upon all occafions his own fentiments are the ftandards and measures by which he judges ...
... according as there is more or less difproportion between his fen- timents and mine , I muft incur a greater or lefs degree of his disapprobation and upon all occafions his own fentiments are the ftandards and measures by which he judges ...
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... According to fome antient phi- lofophers , thefe are the paffions which we fhare in common with the brutes , and which having no connection with the characteristi- cal qualities of human nature , are upon that account beneath its ...
... According to fome antient phi- lofophers , thefe are the paffions which we fhare in common with the brutes , and which having no connection with the characteristi- cal qualities of human nature , are upon that account beneath its ...
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... according to the nature of the original paffion , whofe features it muft always , in fome measure , retain . Two founds , I fuppofe , may , each of them taken fingly , be auftere , and yet , if they are perfect concords , the perception ...
... according to the nature of the original paffion , whofe features it muft always , in fome measure , retain . Two founds , I fuppofe , may , each of them taken fingly , be auftere , and yet , if they are perfect concords , the perception ...
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... According to the greater part of historians , he was to spend the remainder of his days , un- der the protection of a powerful and humane people , in a state which in itself should seem worthy of envy , a ftate of plenty , eafe , lei ...
... According to the greater part of historians , he was to spend the remainder of his days , un- der the protection of a powerful and humane people , in a state which in itself should seem worthy of envy , a ftate of plenty , eafe , lei ...
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Сторінка 436 - I shall in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government and of the different revolutions they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society...
Сторінка 229 - 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 213 - ... what is it which prompts the generous upon all occasions, and the mean upon many, to sacrifice their own interests to the greater interests of others? It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counter-acting the strongest impulses of self-love.
Сторінка 410 - ... 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 147 - Society, however, cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one -another.
Сторінка 274 - 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 16 - WHEN the original passions of the person principally concerned are in perfect concord with the sympathetic emotions of the spectator, they necessarily appear to this last just and proper, and suitable to their objects ; and, on the contrary, when, upon bringing the case home to himself, he finds that they do not coincide with what he feels, they necessarily appear to him unjust and improper, and unsuitable to the causes which excite them.
Сторінка 95 - In all governments, accordingly, even in monarchies, the highest offices are generally possessed, and the whole detail of the administration conducted, by men who were educated in the middle and inferior ranks of life, who have been carried forward by their own industry and abilities...
Сторінка 3 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Сторінка 438 - ... new objects the same name by which they had been accustomed to express the similar object they were first acquainted with. The new objects had none of them any name of its own, but each of them exactly resembled another object which had such an appellation.