 | 1757 - 564 pages
...of thofe whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to fuch a pitch as converts it into a pleafure. We weep for the misfortune of a Hero, to whom we are attached: In the fame inftant we comfort ourfelves by reflecting, that it is nothing but a fiction j and it is precifely... | |
 | David Hume - 1757 - 260 pages
...thofe whom we love, and to " reduce that affliction to fuch a pitch as con." verts it into a pleafure. We weep for the " misfortune of a hero, to whom we are at*« tached : In the fame inftant we comfort our" felves, by reflecting, that it is nothing but a... | |
 | David Hume - 1760 - 408 pages
...thofe whom we love, and to reduce that affliction " to fuch a pitch as converts it into a pleafure. We " weep for the misfortune of a hero, to whom we " are attached. In the fame ihftaot We comfort oqr^ *' felves,- by reflecting, that it is aothing b)jt a fict ion : " And... | |
 | David Hume - 1768 - 606 pages
...to fuch a pitch as converts it into a pleafure. We weep for * * Reflexions fur lapoetique, §. 36. " the misfortune of a hero, to whom we are attached. In the " fame inftant we comfort ourfelves, by reflecting, that it is " nothing but a fiction : And it is... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 462 pages
..."• we suffer from t!ue misfortunes oi' those w.hom we " love, and to reduce that affliction to suck a pitch as. " converts it into a pleasure. We weep for the mis" fortunes of a hero to whom we. are attached. In " the same instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting,... | |
 | David Hume - 1804 - 592 pages
...weak and disguised, suffice to diminish the pain which " we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, " and to reduce that affliction to such a...ourselves, by reflecting, that it is nothing " but a fiction : And it is precisely that mixture of sen* Reflections sur la pocticnifi, § 36. " timents,... | |
 | George Campbell - 1808 - 468 pages
...and disguised, " suffices to diminish the pam which we suffer " from the misfortunes of those whom we love, " and to reduce that affliction to such a...as converts it into a pleasure. We weep for " the misfortunes of a hero to whom we are at" tached. In the same instant we comfort our" selves by reflecting,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain, which we suffer from the niibfortunes of those, whom we love ; and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into pleasure. We weep for the misfortunes of a hero, to whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 868 pages
...weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which " we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, «* and to reduce that affliction to such...same instant " we comfort ourselves, by reflecting, tha} it is nothing " but a fiction : And it is precisely that mixture of -t. n • •• timents,... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 564 pages
...disguised, suffices to di«« minish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of « those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such " a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. Welweep'for the " misfortune of a hero, to whom we are attached. In the «« same instant we comfort... | |
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This idea, though weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. 
