 | Jennifer A. Herdt - 1997 - 322 pages
...fictional representation, "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."04 Fontenelle goes on to suggest that we feel a mixture of sentiments - sympathetic suffering... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
