A Philosophical Treatise on the PassionsT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 382 pages |
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... inspired , by a deliberate attention to the good or bad qualities of their objects . In this philosophic sense of the word , Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind , when impressed by any object ...
... inspired , by a deliberate attention to the good or bad qualities of their objects . In this philosophic sense of the word , Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind , when impressed by any object ...
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... inspire fear , as when the object of our af fection is in a perilous state ; it may excite earnest desire , or sanguine hope . Some of these new passions and affections will arouse to action ; as when the strong sense of an injury ...
... inspire fear , as when the object of our af fection is in a perilous state ; it may excite earnest desire , or sanguine hope . Some of these new passions and affections will arouse to action ; as when the strong sense of an injury ...
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... inspires the affec- tion of LOVE . Whatever occasions , or threatens a privation of happiness , or inflicts positive misery , we view with displeasure , we consider it as injurious , or as an absolute evil , and it inspires the ...
... inspires the affec- tion of LOVE . Whatever occasions , or threatens a privation of happiness , or inflicts positive misery , we view with displeasure , we consider it as injurious , or as an absolute evil , and it inspires the ...
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... inspired by every object which possesses some peculiarity , or is apparently endowed with some quality , of a beneficial or a pernicious tendency ; that is , by whatever is able , according to our conceptions , to promote or impede ...
... inspired by every object which possesses some peculiarity , or is apparently endowed with some quality , of a beneficial or a pernicious tendency ; that is , by whatever is able , according to our conceptions , to promote or impede ...
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... inspires , without our adverting perpetually to the benefits which may accrue from it , we may be induced to imagine that we love things deemed excellent , for their own sakes , abstracted from their power of be- coming useful . But ...
... inspires , without our adverting perpetually to the benefits which may accrue from it , we may be induced to imagine that we love things deemed excellent , for their own sakes , abstracted from their power of be- coming useful . But ...
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according admiration affection of Love agitated anger animal appear appetites apprehension ascribed attention aversion becomes benevolence cerning character circumstances Complacency conduct connected considered contemplation correspondent deemed degree desire disposition diversity enjoyment epilepsies evil excellence excess exciting cause exer exertions express favourable fear feelings fluence frequently gratification grief habitual happiness honour hope hope and fear ideas imagination immediate impression indicate indolence indulged influence injury inspired instances lence Love and Hatred malevolence manifest manner ment merit mind misery nature neral observable offender opposite ourselves painful particular objects Passions and Affections passions and emotions peculiar perception pernicious philosophical pleasing pleasure possess power of sympathy predilection present pride principle produced propensities qualities racter relate render respect rienced satellites of Love Self-love sensation sense sentiments sions social sometimes sorrow species specting spirits suffer superior supposed surprise sympathy term thing tion torpor various Venus de Medicis violent virtue
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Page 316 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 317 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild, then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 317 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 378 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Page 209 - The priest may pardon, and the god may spare.' The prophet spoke: when with a gloomy frown The monarch started from his shining throne; Black choler fill'd his breast that boil'd with ire, And from his eye-balls flash'd the living fire...
Page 96 - she never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief.
Page 371 - ... that part of the composition by the increase of the probability. Are not these as plain proofs, that the passions of fear and hope are mixtures of grief and joy, as in optics it is a proof, that a coloured ray of the sun, passing through a prism, is a composition of two others, when, as you diminish or increase the quantity of either, you find it prevail proportionably, more or less, in the composition ? 5.
Page 343 - The solution follows. (An internal motion or agitation of the mind, when it passeth away without desire, is denominated an emotion: when desire follows, the motion or agitation is denominated a passion.
Page 75 - To prevent mistakes, it must be observed, that desire here is taken in its proper sense; namely, that internal act, which, by influencing the will, makes us proceed to action. Desire in a lax sense respects also actions and events that depend not on us ; as when I desire that my friend may have a son to represent him, or that my country may flourish in arts and sciences: but such internal act is more properly termed a wish than a desire.
Page 365 - ... afterwards, that, upon his release, he quitted them with a degree of reluctance. Custom had reconciled him to the twilight, admitted through the thick-barred grate, to the filthy spots and patches of his plastered walls, to the hardness of his bed, and even to confinement.