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 xxv
... consequence , that it is more easy to obtain the approbation of mankind in prosperity than in adversity . From the same principle he traces the origin of ambition , or of the desire of rank and pre - eminence ; the great object of which ...
... consequence , that it is more easy to obtain the approbation of mankind in prosperity than in adversity . From the same principle he traces the origin of ambition , or of the desire of rank and pre - eminence ; the great object of which ...
Pagina xxvi
... consequence than that of all the world besides . But I am conscious , that , in this excessive preference , other men cannot possibly sympathize with me , and that to them I appear only one of the crowd , in whom they are no more ...
... consequence than that of all the world besides . But I am conscious , that , in this excessive preference , other men cannot possibly sympathize with me , and that to them I appear only one of the crowd , in whom they are no more ...
Pagina xxvii
... consequences which accidentally follow from an action , and which , as they do not depend on the agent , ought undoubtedly , in point of justice , to have no influence on our opinion , either of the propriety or the merit of his conduct ...
... consequences which accidentally follow from an action , and which , as they do not depend on the agent , ought undoubtedly , in point of justice , to have no influence on our opinion , either of the propriety or the merit of his conduct ...
Pagina xxviii
... consequence of an application to ourselves of the judgm have previously passed on the conduct of others . In entering upon this inquiry , which is undoubtedly th important in the work , and for which the foregoing spec are , according ...
... consequence of an application to ourselves of the judgm have previously passed on the conduct of others . In entering upon this inquiry , which is undoubtedly th important in the work , and for which the foregoing spec are , according ...
Pagina xxxviii
... consequence . In most cases it is of more im- portance to ascertain the progress that is most simple , than the progress that is most agreeable to fact ; for , paradoxical as the proposition may appear , it is certainly true that the ...
... consequence . In most cases it is of more im- portance to ascertain the progress that is most simple , than the progress that is most agreeable to fact ; for , paradoxical as the proposition may appear , it is certainly true that the ...
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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...