The Theory of Moral SentimentsA. Millar, 1761 - 436 pages |
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... thefe forms , for her own forrow , the moft complete image of mifery and diftrefs . The infant , however , feels on- ly the uneafinefs of the prefent inftant , which can never be great . With regard to the future it is perfectly secure ...
... thefe forms , for her own forrow , the moft complete image of mifery and diftrefs . The infant , however , feels on- ly the uneafinefs of the prefent inftant , which can never be great . With regard to the future it is perfectly secure ...
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... thefe circumftances ; nor is it the thought of these things which can ever disturb the profound fecurity of their repofe . The idea of that dreary and endless melancholy , which the ' the fancy naturally afcribes to their condition ...
... thefe circumftances ; nor is it the thought of these things which can ever disturb the profound fecurity of their repofe . The idea of that dreary and endless melancholy , which the ' the fancy naturally afcribes to their condition ...
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... thefe different occafions , either feels no fuch emotion as that which I feel , or feels none that bears any pro- portion to mine , cannot avoid difapproving my fentiments on account of their diffonance with his own . If my animofity ...
... thefe different occafions , either feels no fuch emotion as that which I feel , or feels none that bears any pro- portion to mine , cannot avoid difapproving my fentiments on account of their diffonance with his own . If my animofity ...
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... thefe fubjects . We become in- tolerable to one another . I can neither sup- port your company , nor you mine . You are confounded at my violence and paffion , and I am enraged at your cold infenfibility and want of feeling . "匪 In all ...
... thefe fubjects . We become in- tolerable to one another . I can neither sup- port your company , nor you mine . You are confounded at my violence and paffion , and I am enraged at your cold infenfibility and want of feeling . "匪 In all ...
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... is for a reafon of the fame kind , that a certain referve is neceffary when we talk of our own friends , our own ftudies , our own profeffions . profeffions . All thefe are objects which we cannot expect 50 Part I. Of PROPRIETY .
... is for a reafon of the fame kind , that a certain referve is neceffary when we talk of our own friends , our own ftudies , our own profeffions . profeffions . All thefe are objects which we cannot expect 50 Part I. Of PROPRIETY .
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abfurd actions affections againſt agreeable almoſt appear approbation arifes ariſe averfion becauſe behaviour beſtowed breaſt cafe cauſe circumftances conduct confequences confider confideration confifts contrary cuſtom deferve defire degree difagreeable eafily emotions endeavour Epicurus eſtabliſhed eſteem excite exprefs faid fame manner fatisfaction feel feems felves fenfe fenfible fenti fentiments fhould fion firft firſt fituation fociety fome meaſure fomething fometimes forrow fpecies fpectator ftill fuch fufferer fufficient fuperior fuppofed fupport fure fyftem fympathy gratitude greateſt happineſs higheſt himſelf human imagination injuftice intereft itſelf juftice juſt laft laſt leaſt lefs mankind ment mind moft moral moſt motives muft muſt nature neceffarily neceffary neral obferved occafions ourſelves paffions pain pathy perfon philofopher pleaſes pleaſure poffible praiſe principle proper object propriety puniſhment purpoſe racter reafon refentment refpect regard rules ſcarce ſeems ſenſe ſome ſtill ſyſtem thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion turally uſe virtue weakneſs whofe
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Page 202 - When I endeavour to examine my own conduct, when I endeavour to pass sentence upon it, and either to approve or condemn it, it is evident that, in all such cases, I divide myself, as it were, into two persons ; and that I, the examiner and judge, represent a different character from that other I, the person whose conduct is examined into, and judged of.
Page 3 - 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.
Page 202 - The first is the spectator, whose sentiments with regard to my own conduct I endeavour to enter into, by placing myself in his situation, and by considering how it would appear to me, when seen from that particular point of view. The second is the agent, the person whom I properly call myself, and of whose conduct, under the character of a spectator, I was endeavouring to form some opinion.
Page 410 - ... actions ; thirdly, we observe that his conduct has been agreeable to the general rules by which those two sympathies generally act ; and, last of all, when we consider such actions, as making a part of a system of behaviour which tends to promote the happiness either of the individual or of the society, they appear to derive a beauty from this utility, not unlike that which we ascribe to any well-contrived machine.
Page 147 - Society, however, cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another.
Page 229 - THE regard to those general rules of conduct is what is properly called a sense of duty, a principle of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions.
Page 2 - ... it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others when we either see it or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner.
Page 248 - 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.
Page 316 - Fortune never exerted more cruelly her empire over mankind, than when she subjected those nations of heroes to the refuse of the jails of Europe, to wretches who possess the virtues neither of the countries which they come from, nor of those which they go to, and whose levity, brutality, and baseness, expose them to the contempt of the vanquished.
Page 30 - ... the great, the awful and respectable, the virtues of self-denial, of self-government, of that command of the passions which subjects all the movements of our nature to what our own dignity and honour, and the propriety of our own conduct require, take their origin from the other.