The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. To which is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of LanguagesH. G. Bohn, 1853 - 538 pagina's |
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Pagina xxiii
... misfortune naturally excites such a degree of sorrow ; and we know , that if we took time to examine his situation fully , and in all its parts , we should , without doubt , most sincerely sympathise with him . It is upon the ...
... misfortune naturally excites such a degree of sorrow ; and we know , that if we took time to examine his situation fully , and in all its parts , we should , without doubt , most sincerely sympathise with him . It is upon the ...
Pagina xlvii
... misfortune to differ from me . All these are reasons for our meeting , and I wish you would make me some reasonable proposal for that purpose . There is no habitation in the island of Inchkeith , otherwise I should challenge you to meet ...
... misfortune to differ from me . All these are reasons for our meeting , and I wish you would make me some reasonable proposal for that purpose . There is no habitation in the island of Inchkeith , otherwise I should challenge you to meet ...
Pagina 7
... misfortune , and still more from torturing ourselves with conjectures about what it may be , yet our fellow - feeling is not very con- siderable . Sympathy , therefore , does not arise so much from the view of the passion , as from that ...
... misfortune , and still more from torturing ourselves with conjectures about what it may be , yet our fellow - feeling is not very con- siderable . Sympathy , therefore , does not arise so much from the view of the passion , as from that ...
Pagina 9
... misfortune . That our sympathy can afford them no conso- lation seems to be an addition to their calamity ; and to think that all we can do is unavailing , and that , what alleviates all other distress , the regret , the love , and the ...
... misfortune . That our sympathy can afford them no conso- lation seems to be an addition to their calamity ; and to think that all we can do is unavailing , and that , what alleviates all other distress , the regret , the love , and the ...
Pagina 12
... misfortunes , they in some measure renew their grief . They awaken in their memory the remembrance of those circumstances which occasion their affliction . Their tears accordingly flow faster than before , and they are apt to abandon ...
... misfortunes , they in some measure renew their grief . They awaken in their memory the remembrance of those circumstances which occasion their affliction . Their tears accordingly flow faster than before , and they are apt to abandon ...
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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 l - ... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations.
Pagina 264 - They consume little more than the poor ; and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements.
Pagina 162 - Were it possible that a human creature could grow up to manhood in some solitary place, without any communication with his own species, he could no more think of his own character, of the propriety or demerit of his own sentiments and conduct, of the beauty or deformity of his own mind, than of the beauty or deformity of his own face.
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 - ... what, by Cicero, is justly called the divine maxim of Plato, never to use violence to his country no more than to his parents. He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people ; and will remedy, as well as he can, the inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to.
Pagina 120 - When he views himself in the light in which he is conscious that others will view him, he sees that to them he is but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it. If he would act so as that the impartial spectator may enter into the principles of his conduct, which is what of all things he has the greatest desire to do, he must upon this, as upon all other occasions, humble the arrogance of his self-love, and bring it down to something which other men can go along with.
Pagina 5 - Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow-feeling with the sorrow of others. Sympathy, though its meaning was, perhaps, originally the same, may now, however, without much impropriety, be made use of to denote our fellowfeeling with any passion whatever.
Pagina xxxix - I shall inform you of a few that have come to my knowledge. I believe I have mentioned to you already Helvetius's book de I' Esprit. It is worth your reading, not for its philosophy, which I do not highly value, but for its agreeable composition.
Pagina 224 - Our continual observations upon the conduct of others, insensibly lead us to form to ourselves certain general rules concerning what is fit and proper either to be done or to be avoided.