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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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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 2

1802 - 522 pages
...demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of iifolf. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall...upon -the leg or 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,...
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Biographical Memoirs, of Adam Smith, LL. D., of William Robertson, D. D. and ...

Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...prove by various instances. " When we " see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fell upon the leg or i '* arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back " our own leg or our own arm ; and when »t does fall, we , " feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the " sufferer. The mob,...
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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ...

Adam Smith - 1811 - 602 pages
...the leg or arm of another perfon, we " naturally " naturally fbrink and draw back our own leg SECT. " or our own arm ; and when it does fall, we " feel it in fome meafure, and are hurt by it " as well as the fufferer. The mob, when they " are gazing at a dancer...
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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ...

Adam Smith - 1811 - 662 pages
...the leg or arm of another perfon, we " naturally " naturally fhrink and draw back our own leg SECT. " or our own arm ; and when it does fall, we " feel it in fome meafure, and are hurt by it " as well as thefufferer. The mob, when they ** are gazing at a dancer...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The theory of moral sentiments

Adam Smith - 1812 - 642 pages
...fee a flroke aimed and jufl ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another perfon, we naturally Ihrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm ; and when it does fall, we feel it in fome meafure, and are hurt by it as well as the fufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer...
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 pages
...There 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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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1828 - 584 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 upon the leg or arm of other person, we naturally shrink, and draw back our own Jeg or arm. Hysterical paroxysms are said...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...is impossible for us, however, to conceive ourselves placed in any situation, whether agreeable or otherwise, without feeling an effect of the same kind...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
...attempts to prove by various instances. "When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon t]|e leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink...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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Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, Volume 2

James Mill - 1829 - 342 pages
...association to produce analogous effects, at all periods of life. " When we see a stroke," says Mr. Smith, " aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of...shrink and draw back our own leg, or our own arm. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist, and balance...
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