AND F.R.S. OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH:

ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS
IN SCOTLAND;

AND FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

BY DUGALD STEWART,

PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY, AND
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, OF EDINBURGH,
&c. &c. &c.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

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CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

THE THEORY OF MORAL
SENTIMENTS.

PART I.

OF THE PROPRIETY OF ACTIONS.

SECT. I.

OF the Senfe of Propriety

CHAP. I. Of SYMPATHY

CHAP. II.

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Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy
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
CHAP. IV. The fame fubject continued

CHAP. V.

Of the amiable and respectable virtues

SECT. II.

Of the Degrees of the different Paffions which
are confiftent with Propriety

INTRODUCTION

ibid.

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36

ibid.

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CHAP. II

CHAP. I. Of the Paffions which take their origin
from the body

A 2

CHAP. II.

Of thofe Paffions which take their origin

from a particular turn or habit of the Imagination Page 44
Of the unfocial Paffions

CHAP. III.

CHAP. IV. Of the focial Paffions

CHAP. V. Of the selfish Paffions

SECT. III.

Of the Effects of Profperity and Adverfity
upon the Judgment of Mankind with re-
gard to the Propriety of Action; and why
it is more cafy to obtain their Approbation
in the one ftate than in the other

CHAP. I.

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That though our Sympathy with forrow is
generally a more lively fenfation than our sympathy with
joy, it commonly falls much more fort of the violence of
what is naturally felt by the perfon principally concerned ibid.
CHAP. II.
Of the origin of Ambition, and of the dif-

tinction of Ranks
CHAP. III.

Of the corruption of our moral fentiments,
which is occafioned by this difpofition to admire the rich
and the great, and to defpife or neglect perfons of poor
and mean condition

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PART II.

OF MERIT AND DEMERIT; OR, OF THE OBJECTS
OF REWARD AND PUNISHMENT.

SECT. I.

Of the Senfe of Merit and Demerit

INTRODUCTION

CHAP. I.

That whatever appears to be the proper ob-
ject of gratitude, appears to deserve reward; and that,

108

ibid.

in