Essays / by Adam Smith.

  • Adam Smith
Date:
1869
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Credit: Essays / by Adam Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the general rules derived from our sentiments would commonly correspoi d motions. upon many other occasions, the irnpropi ^ -which any action pro- The sentiment or affection of .the depend, ceeds, and upon which its whole virtue different rela- niay be considered under two different as^ tions ; first, in relation to r^a^on t^ the end which which cives occasion to it, and secona y, -Slosophers have, cl Me Vf--—' affections, and have given ^ I„ common life, however stand in to the cause which fJ ^ f the sentiments which when we judge of any persons conduct a d directed it, we constant y of love, of grief, of When we blame m another m they tend to resentment, we not only iven for them. The merit produce, but the little occasio 1 his^misfortune is not so dread- portioned to it. ,^nnncr of any affection as proportioned or When we judge in thi excites it, it is scarce possible that disproportioned to ‘^aus 1^^ ^he correspondent we should make use of ^ j the case home to our own breast affecticyi in ourselves. If, tipon^g^ ^„,„cide and we finii that the approve of them as proportioned tally with our and suitable to their J > proportion. of them, as extravagant and out^^ P ^ ^ ^ire by which he judps of the Ever>- faculty m one ^ hy my sight, of your ^r like faculty in another. I judg ^ of your resentment by my by my ear, of your reason y 7 ^ neither have, nor can have, resentment, of your love by ^7 i°vo- any other way of judging about them.
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