 | Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 pages
...objects, is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathize with them; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do...reasonableness of my sorrow. He who admires the same poem, or the same picture, and admires them exactly as I do, must surely allow the justness of my admiration.... | |
 | Levi Frisbie - 1823 - 310 pages
...is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathize with them ; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do...reasonableness of my sorrow. He who admires the same poem, or the same picture, and admires them exactly as I do, must surely allow the justness of my admiration.... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathize with them ; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do...reasonableness of my sorrow. He who admires the same poem or the same picture, and admires them exactly as I do, must surely allow the justness of my admiration.... | |
 | Joannes Franciscus Benjamin Baert - 1858 - 300 pages
...the same thing //as to observe that we entirely sympathize withthem, // and not to approve of them as such is the same thing //as to observe, that we do not entirely sympathize // with them 3)." Uit deze redenering volgt , dat onze i) The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Part. 3 ch. I. Vol. I... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pages
...is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathize with them ; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do...reasonableness of my sorrow. He who admires the same poem, or the same picture, and admires them exactly as I do, must surely allow the justness of my admiration.... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 182 pages
...motive or feeling of the person principally concerned accords with the feeling of the spectator. " The man whose sympathy keeps time to my grief, cannot...but admit the reasonableness of my sorrow. He who laughs at the same joke, and laughs along with me, cannot well deny the propriety of my laughter. On... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1887 - 184 pages
...is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathize with them ; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do not entirely sympathize with them. The character of the book, and its style, are far more those of a volume of literary essays, devoted to... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick - 1896 - 426 pages
...passions of others as suitable to their objects is the same thing as to sympathise with them, . . . the man whose sympathy keeps time to my grief cannot but admit the reasonableness of my sorrow." Similarly, a spectator disapproves of a passion as excessive, when it is exhibited in a degree to which... | |
 | Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - 1897 - 518 pages
...is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathize with them ; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do...reasonableness of my sorrow. He who admires the same poem, or the same picture, and admires them exactly as I do, must surely allow the justness of my admiration.... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 484 pages
...is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathise with them ; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do not entirely sympathise with them. The man who resents the injuries that have been done to me, and observes that... | |
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To approve of the passions of another, therefore, as suitable to their objects, is the same thing as to observe that we entirely sympathize with them; and not to approve of them as such, is the same thing as to observe that we do not entirely sympathize... 
