| History - 1802 - 522 pages
...which interest him in thefortuncot others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though IK: derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing 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... | |
| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1805 - 590 pages
...soever," observes the sagacious author of 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments,' " man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing 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... | |
| Adam Smith - Ethics - 1817 - 776 pages
...SECTION I. OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY. CHAPTER I. Of Sympathy. HOW selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing 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... | |
| Anna Seward - English poetry - 1817 - 204 pages
...soever," observes the sagacious author •f ' The Theory of Moral Sentiments,' " man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing 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... | |
| Anna Seward - English poetry - 1817 - 198 pages
...author of ' The Theory of Moral Sentiments,' " man may be supposed, there are evidently some principle? in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of...render their happiness necessary to him. though he deiives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the... | |
| William Burdon - Ethics - 1820 - 460 pages
...on the nature of pity or compassion. " How selfish soever," says he, " man may be supposed, there is evidently some principles in his nature which interest...others, and render their happiness necessary to him, tho' he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion;... | |
| William Burdon - Ethics - 1820 - 1026 pages
...nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, i In)' he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion: the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or conceive it in a very... | |
| John Epps - 1829 - 624 pages
...in general very anxious about the welfare and happiness of others ; for howsoever selfish man may be there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it,... | |
| William Draper - Economics - 1830 - 44 pages
...their followers, in later days. Dr. Smith, though he makes - little direct reference to this system 1 founded on the absolute selfishness of man, may be...him, though he derives nothing from it except the plea\ sure of seeing it ; of this kind is pity or compassion, words appropriated to signify our fellow... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...morals. He had shewn by the most unanswerable reasoning that their origin was to be found in sentiment, not in the subtleties of abstract ratiocination ;...feeling with the sorrow of others." " Sympathy," he adds* " though its meaning was originally the same, may now, however, be made use of to denote our... | |
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