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" When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. "
Biographical Memoirs, of Adam Smith, LL. D., of William Robertson, D. D. and ... - Page 23
by Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 532 pages
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 2

1802 - 522 pages
...arm of another person, we naturally shrinkand draw back our own leg, or- our own arm ; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by jt as well as the sufferer. The mob, when they are gaxing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 pages
...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt...sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they...
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Systematic morality, or, A treatise on the theory and practice of human duty ...

William Jevons - 1827 - 424 pages
...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm ; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt...sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they...
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1828 - 584 pages
...be filled with the same anxiety, which we may suppose to exist in the rope-dancer himself; but they naturally writhe, and twist, and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.' It has also been frequently remarked, that when we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm, and when it does fall we feel it in some measure, and are hurt...sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies as they see him do, and as they...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm ; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt...sufferer. The mob when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm ; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt...sufferer. The mob when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 416 pages
...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm ; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt...it as well as the sufferer. The mob when they are gazirig at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies as they see him do, and as they feel that they must themselves do, if in his situation." — " In general," he observes, " that as to be in pain or...
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The History of Moral Science, Volume 2

Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 pages
...person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg- or our own arm •, and when it does fall, we feel in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing on a dancer on the slack-rope, naturally writhe, and twist, and balance their o\vn bodies, as they...
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