Edition, in the last Chapter of the third Section of Part First; and in the four first Chapters of Part Third. Part Sixth, as it stands in this New Edition, is altogether new. In Part Seventh, I have brought together the greater part of the different passages concerning the Stoical Philosophy, which , in the former Editions, had been scattered about in different parts of the work, I have likewise endeavoured to explain more fully , and examine more distinctly, fome of the doctrines of that famous fect. In the fourth and last Section of the same Part, I have thrown together a few additional oblervations concerning the duty and principle of veracity. There are, besides , in other parts of the work, a few other alterations and corrections of no great moment In the last paragraph of the first Edition of the prefent work, I said, that I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the ver general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police , revenue, and arms, and whatever elle is the object of law. In the Inquiry concerning the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, I have partly executed this promise ; at least so far as concerns police, revenue, and arms. What remains, the theory of jurisprudence, which I have long projected, I have hitherto been hindered from executing, by the fame occupations which had till now prevented me from revising the present work. Though my very advanced age leaves me, I acknowledge, very little expectation of ever being able to execute this great work to my own fatisfaction ; yet, as I have not altogether abandoned the design, and as I wish still to continue under the obligation of doing what I can, I a 3 me n have allowed the paragraph to remain as it was published more than thirty years ago, when I entertained no doubt of being able to execute every thing which it announced. OF I H E CHAP. II. Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy. 10 CHAP. III. Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the Affections of other Men, by their concord or dissonance with our own. 15 CHAP. IV. The same subject continued. CHAP. V. Of the amiable and respectable virtues. 28 Of the Degrees of the different Passions which are CHAP. I. Of the Pasions which take their origin CHAP. II. Of those Passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagina- CHAP. III. Of the unfocial Pasions. Of the Effects of Prosperity and Adversity upon the Judgment of Mankind with regard to the Propriety of Action; and why it is more easy to obtain their Approbation in the one ftate CHAP. I. That though our sympathy with forrow is generally a more lively sensation than our sympatliy with joy, it commonly falls much more short of tive violence of what is naturally felt by the perfon prin- CHAP. II. Of the origin of Ambition, and of the dif- CHAP. III. Of the corruption of our moral sentiments, which is occasioned by this difpofition to admire the Of MERIT and DEMERIT; or of the Objects of Of the SENSE of MERIT and DEMERIT. CHAP. I. That whatever appears to be the proper object of gratitude, appears to deserve reward ; and that, in the same manner, whatever appears to be the proper object of resentment , appears to deserve punisi- |