 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1824 - 430 pages
...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,...ourselves by reflecting, that it is nothing but a fiction, and it is precisely that mixture of agreeable sorrow and tears that delight us. But, as that... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 572 pages
...suffer from the misfortunes of • • those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to suck " a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. We weep for...ourselves, by reflecting, that it ** is nothing but a fiction : And it is precisely that mix* • Reflection» snr la Poctiquc. § 36, " ture of sentiments,... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 562 pages
...ancldisguised, suffices to dimi" nish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of " those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such " a...misfortune of a hero, to whom we are attached. In thd " same instant we comfort ourselves, by reflecting, that it " is nothing but a fiction : And it... | |
 | David Hume - 1842 - 570 pages
...and disguised, suffices to ili(t 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. We weep'for the " misfortune of a hero, to whom we are attached. In the f<tsame instant we comfort ourselves,... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 602 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 a pitch...ourselves by reflecting, that it is nothing but a fiction : And it is precisely that mixture of sentiments which composes an agreeable sorrow, and tears... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1836 - 528 pages
...We have still a certain idea of falsehood in the whole of what we see. We weep for the misfortunes of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant,...ourselves by reflecting, that it is nothing but a fiction. The short answer to this is, that we are conscious of no such alternation as that here described.... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 pages
...We have still a certain idea of falsehood in the whole of what we see. We weep for the misfortunes of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant,...ourselves by reflecting, that it is nothing but a fiction. The short answer to this is, that we are conscious of no such alternation as that here described.... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 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 a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. We weep for the misfortunes of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1845 - 420 pages
...We have still a certain idea of falsehood in the whole of what we see. We weep for the misfortunes of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant, we comfort ourselves hy reflecting, that it is nothing hut a fiction. The short answer to this is, that we are conscious... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pages
...those whom we love, and to reduce that * Essay on Tragedy. t Reflexions sur la PoMique, sect, xxxvi. affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure. We weep for the misfortunes of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting... | |
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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. 
