THE THE ORY O F MORAL SENTIMENTS; OR, An ESSAY towards an Analysis of the Principles by TO WHICH IS ADDED, A Differtation on the Origin of Languages. By ADAM SMITH, LL. D. Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; A NEW EDITION. VOL. I. BASIL: Printed and fold by J. J. TOURNEISEN. MDCCXCIII. SINCE the first publication of the THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS which was fo long ago as the beginning of the year 1759, feveral corrections, and a good many illuftrations of ♦ the doctrines contained in it, have occurred to me. But the various occupations in which the different accidents of my life neceffarily involved me, have till now prevented me from revifing this work with the care and attention which I always intended. The reader will find the principal alterations which I have made in this New |