...that something there ia that men call fire, because it warmeth him. [Pity and Indignation.} Pity 13 and ia ijrcatcr, because then there appcareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the...

...but know that something there is tbat men call fire, because it wanneth him. PITY AND INDIGNATION. Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity...deserved the same, the compassion is greater, because then there appeareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the evil that happeneth...

...Rochefoucault's definition of Pity is almost identical with that given by Hobbes, who sty les it, " Imagination, or fiction of future calamity to ourselves,...proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity/* After making, as we thought, quite a discovery, we found Hazlitt had, long before, pointed out the...

...but know that something there is that men call fire, because it warmeth him. PITY AND INDIGNATION. Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the Reuse of another man's calamity. But when it lightcth on such as we think have not deserved the same,...

...and operations. A large part of Hobbes's philosophy consists in such explanations. Thus he says, " Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity...proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity." The same is the case in his celebrated explanation of laughter : " The passion of laughter proceedeth...

...but know that something there is that men call tire, because it wanueth him. [Pity and Indignation,] Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity...lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the eainc, the compassion ig greater, because then there appeareth more j> 'obability that the same may...

...according to his theory, "acknowledgment of power is called Honour;" — " Pity is the imagination of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity," — " Laughter is occasioned by sudden glory in our eminence, or in comparison with the infirmity of...

...works of his predecessors. I allude to the account of Pity given by Hobbes, who defines it to be " the imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity."1 In what respect this theory coincides with Mr. Smith's, will appear from the remarks I...

...works of his predecessors. I allude to the account of Pity given by Hobbes, who defines it to be "the imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity."1 In what respect this theory coincides with Mr. Smith's, will appear from the remarks I...

...or fiction of future calamity o ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. Sut when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the ame, the compassion is greater, because then there appeareth more 'robability that the same may happen...