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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... "
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Page 18
by Dugald Stewart - 1858
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The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man

Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 480 pages
...establish his doctrine wilh demonstrative evidence. "When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to full upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally...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 Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and ...

Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 pages
...Smith mentions a variety of facts which he thinks establish his doctrine with demonstrative evidence. "When we see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall...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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Abridgement of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1864 - 582 pages
...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...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink, and slightly draw back our own leg or arm, with a sort of prophetic or anticipative imitation of the person...
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The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man

Dugald Stewart - 1868 - 482 pages
...Smith mentions a variety of facts which he thinks establish his doctrine with demonstrative evidence. " When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the suflerer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and...
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The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man

Dugald Stewart - 1868 - 480 pages
...Smith mentions a variety of facts which he thinks establish his doctrine with demonstrative evidence. " When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...back our own leg, or our own arm, and when it does fajl we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. The mob, when they are...
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Abridgment of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 564 pages
...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...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink, and slightly draw back our own leg or arm, with a sort of prophetic or anticipative imitation of the person...
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Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation ...

Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pages
...3* is, however, a good deal of sympathy even with bodily pain. If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm : and when it does fall, I feel it in some...
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Laocoon

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1874 - 456 pages
...There is, however, a good deal of sympathy even with bodily pain. If, as has been already observed, I see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg or my own arm, and when it does fall I feel it, in some...
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Selected Prose Works of G.E. Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1879 - 558 pages
...always unmanly and unbecoming. There is, however, a good deal of sympathy even with bodily pain. If I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, 1 naturally shrink, and draw hack my own leg or my own arm ; and when it does fall, I feel it in some...
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The Principles of Morals, Part 2

John Matthias Wilson, Thomas Fowler - 1887 - 428 pages
...observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed, and jnst ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or onr own arm ; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hart by it as well as the...
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