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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. "
The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their ... - Page 407
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Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears

Tom Lutz - 2001 - 358 pages
...falsehood in the whole of what we see . . . [which] suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer . . . and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts...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...
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Early Responses to Hume's Moral, Literary & Political Writings

James Fieser - 2005 - 516 pages
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Early Responses to Hume's Writings on Religion: 2 Volumes

James Fieser - 2005 - 404 pages
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Romantic Shakespeare: From Stage to Page

Younglim Han - 2001 - 264 pages
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Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners

Samuel Guttenplan - 2002 - 300 pages
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The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology

Eileen John, Dominic McIver Lopes - 2004 - 384 pages
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Scottish Philosophy: Selected Readings 1690-1960

Gordon Graham - 2004 - 264 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 pleasure. We weep for the misfortune of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort...
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Art and Enlightenment: Scottish Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century

Jonathan Friday - 2004 - 222 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 pleasure. We weep for the misfortune of a hero to whom we are attached. In the same instant we comfort...
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Aesthetics: History of aesthetics

James O. Young - 2005 - 428 pages
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Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

David Hume - 2007 - 630 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 misfortnne of a hero to whom we are attached. In the !<ame instant we comfort ourselves by reflecting',...
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