A philosophical treatise on the passions ... / [T. Cogan].

  • Thomas Cogan
Date:
1800
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Credit: A philosophical treatise on the passions ... / [T. Cogan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7° by felf-approbation, or the teflimony of an ap- plauding confcience, enlivened perhaps by the voice of gratitude, and enriched by the efteem oi the worthy. If it proceed from the conduct oi others, it augments the pleafures of affection, friend- fhip, and gratitude. According to the above view of the affection, may a virtuous and comprehenfive mind, contem- plate things in themfelves of a difpleafing nature with complacency : Such as difficulties, which are introductory to benefits; and fufferings, which may be requifite for the production of the mofl ef- fential good. But the affection of Complacency has its coun- terfeit. Being more complicate than either of the preceding, and the approbation of the mind form- ing a conftituent part of it, an erroneous opinion of ourfelves may change the nature of this fublime * affection, and render it the parent of vice and folly. Thus falfe conceptions of our own talents, acquirements, conduct, may infpire Pride, Vani- ty, Haughlinefs, and Arrogance. Notwithflanding thefe affections are evil in their nature and tendency, yet as they are the illegitimate offspring of Complacency violated by Self-love, and have the appearance of great good for their object, they demand a place in this arrangement. Pride
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