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 xx
... agreeable and disagreeable qualities in actions , which it is not the province of reason but of feeling to perceive ; and to that power of perception which renders us susceptible of pleasure or of XX ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... agreeable and disagreeable qualities in actions , which it is not the province of reason but of feeling to perceive ; and to that power of perception which renders us susceptible of pleasure or of XX ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
Pagina xxii
... agreeable or otherwise , without feeling an effect of the same kind with what would be produced by the situation itself ; and consequently the attention we give at any time to the circumstances of our neighbour , must affect us somewhat ...
... agreeable or otherwise , without feeling an effect of the same kind with what would be produced by the situation itself ; and consequently the attention we give at any time to the circumstances of our neighbour , must affect us somewhat ...
Pagina xxiv
... agreeable . The selfish emotions of grief and joy , when they are conceived on account of our own private good or bad fortune , hold a sort of middle place between our social and our unsocial passions . xxiv ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND ...
... agreeable . The selfish emotions of grief and joy , when they are conceived on account of our own private good or bad fortune , hold a sort of middle place between our social and our unsocial passions . xxiv ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND ...
Pagina xxx
... agreeable , either to the person himself or to others , he admits to be a pro- position that holds universally ; and he also admits , that the sentiment of approbation with which we regard virtue , is en- livened by the perception of ...
... agreeable , either to the person himself or to others , he admits to be a pro- position that holds universally ; and he also admits , that the sentiment of approbation with which we regard virtue , is en- livened by the perception of ...
Pagina xxxviii
... agreeable to fact ; for , paradoxical as the proposition may appear , it is certainly true that the real progress is not always the most natural . It may have been determined by particular accidents , which are not likely again to occur ...
... agreeable to fact ; for , paradoxical as the proposition may appear , it is certainly true that the real progress is not always the most natural . It may have been determined by particular accidents , which are not likely again to occur ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
according actions admiration affection agreeable altogether appear applause approbation Aristotle attention beauty behaviour beneficence benevolence breast called casuistry casuists character Cicero conceive conduct consider contempt contrary death declensions degree deserve desire disagreeable dreadful emotions endeavour Epictetus Epicurus esteem excite express favour feel fellow-feeling fortune frequently friends gratitude greater greatest happiness honour human nature imagination impartial spectator impersonal verbs indignation injustice interest judge justice kind language mankind manner ment merit mind misfortunes moral sentiments motives never noun substantive observed occasions ourselves pain particular passions pathy perfect perhaps perly philosophers Plato pleasure praise prepositions principles proper object propriety prudence punishment qualities racter reason regard render resentment respect rules savage nations scarce seems seldom self-command sense sensibility situation Smith society sometimes sorrow species Stoics suffer superior supposed sympathy thing tion tural University of Glasgow vanity verbs virtue virtuous weakness Wealth of Nations words
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...