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 v
... Pleasure of mutual Sympathy , 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 , IV . The same Subject continued , ... V. Of the amiable ...
... Pleasure of mutual Sympathy , 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 , IV . The same Subject continued , ... V. Of the amiable ...
Pagina xviii
... pleasure , as well as instruction , in following the same object , through all the diversity of shades and aspects in which it was presented , and afterwards in tracing it backwards to that ori- ginal proposition or general truth from ...
... pleasure , as well as instruction , in following the same object , through all the diversity of shades and aspects in which it was presented , and afterwards in tracing it backwards to that ori- ginal proposition or general truth from ...
Pagina xx
... agreeable and disagreeable qualities in actions , which it is the province of reason but of feeling to perceive ; and to that po 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 the province of reason but of feeling to perceive ; and to that po of perception which renders us susceptible of pleasure or of. XX ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.
Pagina xxi
... pleasure which we derive from the view of them is the pleasure of utility . Mr. Smith , without re- jecting entirely Mr. Hume's doctrine , proposes another of his own , far more comprehensive ; a doctrine with which he thinks all the ...
... pleasure which we derive from the view of them is the pleasure of utility . Mr. Smith , without re- jecting entirely Mr. Hume's doctrine , proposes another of his own , far more comprehensive ; a doctrine with which he thinks all the ...
Pagina xlii
... pleasure and gratitude . To the public it was not , perhaps , a change equally fortunate ; as it interrupted that studious leisure for which nature seems to have destined him , and in which alone he could have hoped to accomplish those ...
... pleasure and gratitude . To the public it was not , perhaps , a change equally fortunate ; as it interrupted that studious leisure for which nature seems to have destined him , and in which alone he could have hoped to accomplish those ...
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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...