 How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Of...  Annual Register of World Events - Page 4851802Full view - About this book
 | Adam Smith (économiste) - 1761 - 458 pages
...the emotion which we feel for the mifery of others, B when 2 Of PRoPRIETY. Part I. when we either fee it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner. That we often derive forrow from the forrow of others is a matter of fact too obvious to require any inftances to prove... | |
 | History - 1762 - 578 pages
...this kind is pity or companion, the emotion which we feel for the mifery of others, when we either fee it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner.' That we often derive forrow from fame t;me a perfeftly natural road of the forrow of others, is too obvious fpeculation... | |
 | Adam Smith - Conduct of life - 1767 - 498 pages
...is pity or compaffion, the emotion which we feel for the mifery of others, B when \vhenwe either fee it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner. That we often derive forrow from the forrow of others is a matter of fact too obvious to require any inftances to prove... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1767 - 504 pages
...is. pity or compafllon, the emotion which we feeI for the mifery of others, B when when we either fee it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner. That we often derive forrow from the forrow of others is a matter of fact too obvious to require any inftances to prove... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1805 - 590 pages
...which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing...a very lively manner. That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it ; for... | |
 | Adam Smith - Ethics - 1817 - 776 pages
...which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing...a very lively manner. That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it; for... | |
 | Anna Seward - English poetry - 1817 - 204 pages
...which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing...a very lively manner. That we often derive sorrow from'the sonow of tttheis, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it; for... | |
 | Anna Seward - English poetry - 1817 - 198 pages
...interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him. though he deiives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it....a very lively manner. That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it ; for... | |
 | William Burdon - Ethics - 1820 - 460 pages
...nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, tho' he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing...for the misery of others, when we either see it, or conceive it in a very lively manner. That we often derive sorrow from the sorrow of others, is a matter... | |
 | John Epps - 1829 - 624 pages
...which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, an emotion of the moral sentiments, by which we feel for the misery of others, or joy and pleasure... | |
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