The theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the principles by which men naturally judge. To which is added, A dissertation on the origin of languages1853 |
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Pagina xxi
... According to Mr. Hume , all the qua- lities which are denominated virtuous , are useful either to ourselves or to others , and the pleasure which we derive from the view of them is the pleasure of utility . Mr. Smith , without re ...
... According to Mr. Hume , all the qua- lities which are denominated virtuous , are useful either to ourselves or to others , and the pleasure which we derive from the view of them is the pleasure of utility . Mr. Smith , without re ...
Pagina xxii
... according to Mr. Smith , in every case in our attention is turned to the condition of our neighbour . ever is the passion which arises from any object in the principally concerned , an analogous emotion springs up , thought of his ...
... according to Mr. Smith , in every case in our attention is turned to the condition of our neighbour . ever is the passion which arises from any object in the principally concerned , an analogous emotion springs up , thought of his ...
Pagina xxiii
... according to Mr. Smith , only apparent . " A stranger , for example , passes by us in the street with all the marks of the deepest affliction : and we are imme- diately told , that he has just received the news of the death of his ...
... according to Mr. Smith , only apparent . " A stranger , for example , passes by us in the street with all the marks of the deepest affliction : and we are imme- diately told , that he has just received the news of the death of his ...
Pagina xxiv
... according as mankind are disposed , or not dis sympathize with it . It is unbecoming , for example , to strongly any of those passions which arise from a cert dition of the body ; because other men , who are not in t condition , cannot ...
... according as mankind are disposed , or not dis sympathize with it . It is unbecoming , for example , to strongly any of those passions which arise from a cert dition of the body ; because other men , who are not in t condition , cannot ...
Pagina xxvi
... a competition of interests , to act according to my own feelings , and not ac- cording to those of impartial spectators , I never fail to incur " 9 the punishment of remorse . When my passion xxvi ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... a competition of interests , to act according to my own feelings , and not ac- cording to those of impartial spectators , I never fail to incur " 9 the punishment of remorse . When my passion xxvi ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 4 - 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...
Pagina 3 - As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
Pagina l - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Pagina 262 - It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. It is this which first prompted them to cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonwealths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human life; which have entirely changed the whole face of the globe, have turned the rude forests of nature into agreeable and fertile plains, and made the trackless and barren ocean a new fund of subsistence, and the...
Pagina 241 - The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind ; and our neighbour as ourselves.
Pagina lvi - By such maxims as these, however, nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours. Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its own loss. Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations, as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.
Pagina 340 - When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear.
Pagina 341 - How well has he painted the man of system, and how many features of this portrait have we recognised in Mr. Bentham, and others of our day ! — " He is apt to be very wise in his own conceit, and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it.
Pagina 71 - To be observed, to be attended to, to be taken notice of with sympathy, complacency and approbation, are all the advantages which we can propose to derive from it. It is vanity, not the ease, or the pleasure, which interests us.
Pagina 505 - The assignation of particular names to denote particular objects, that is, the institution of nouns' substantive, would, probably, be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. Two savages, who had never been taught to speak, but had been bred up remote from the societies of men, would naturally begin to form that language, by which...