Essays on Philosophical SubjectsT. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1795 - 244 páginas |
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... . HUTCHESON's philofophy to refute , and'in op- pofition to it , to fhew that the words Right and Wrong exprefs certain 1 I " certain agreeable and difagreeable qualities in actions , which xxii ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND.
... . HUTCHESON's philofophy to refute , and'in op- pofition to it , to fhew that the words Right and Wrong exprefs certain 1 I " certain agreeable and difagreeable qualities in actions , which xxii ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND.
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Adam Smith Joseph Black, James Hutton. " certain agreeable and difagreeable qualities in actions , which it is not the province of reafon but of feeling to perceive ; and to that power of perception which renders us fufceptible of ...
Adam Smith Joseph Black, James Hutton. " certain agreeable and difagreeable qualities in actions , which it is not the province of reafon but of feeling to perceive ; and to that power of perception which renders us fufceptible of ...
Página xxiv
... agreeable or otherwise , without feeling an effect of the fame kind with what would be produced by the fituation itself ; and of consequence the attention we give at any time to the circum- stances of our neighbour , must affect us ...
... agreeable or otherwise , without feeling an effect of the fame kind with what would be produced by the fituation itself ; and of consequence the attention we give at any time to the circum- stances of our neighbour , must affect us ...
Página xxv
... agreeable to both . When I am in a fituation which excites any paffion , it is pleasant to me to know , that the spectators of my fituation enter with me into all its various circumftances , and are affeЯcd с affected with them in the ...
... agreeable to both . When I am in a fituation which excites any paffion , it is pleasant to me to know , that the spectators of my fituation enter with me into all its various circumftances , and are affeЯcd с affected with them in the ...
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... agreeable . The selfish emotions of grief and joy , when they are conceived on account of our own private good or bad fortune , hold a fort of middle place between our focial and our unfocial paffions . They are never fo graceful as the ...
... agreeable . The selfish emotions of grief and joy , when they are conceived on account of our own private good or bad fortune , hold a fort of middle place between our focial and our unfocial paffions . They are never fo graceful as the ...
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Página lxxii - The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind...
Página 181 - ... a glass of broken jelly where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci ; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case, cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may...
Página xlvii - Buccleugh under the author's care, and would make it worth his while to accept of that charge. As soon as I heard this, I called on him twice, with a view of talking with him about the matter, and of convincing him of the propriety of sending that young nobleman to...
Página xxiii - 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; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Página xxxvi - may appear very plausible, and be, for a long time, very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any sort of resemblance to the truth. But it is otherwise with systems of Moral Philosophy.
Página lxxiii - 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.
Página 13 - There is no break, no stop, no gap, no interval. The ideas excited by so coherent a chain of things seem, as it were, to float through the mind of their own accord, without obliging it to exert itself, or to make any effort in order to pass from one of them to another.
Página 4 - The violent and sudden change produced upon the mind, when an emotion of any kind is brought suddenly upon it, constitutes the whole nature of Surprise.
Página xliii - Languages, which exhibits a very beautiful specimen of theoretical history, applied to a subject equally curious and difficult. The analogy between the train of thinking from which it has taken its...
Página lxxvii - The Political Discourses of Mr. Hume were evidently of greater use to Mr. Smith, than any other book that had appeared prior to his lectures.