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Parti. EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. 3g
Emotions are railed in us , not only by the qua-
lities and adions of others , but also by their seel-
ings : I cannot behold a man in distress . without,
partaking os his pain ; nor in joy, without parta-
king os his pleasure.
The beings or things above described , occasion
emotions in us , not only in the original survey ,
but also. when recalled to the memory in idea : a
field laid out with tafte , is pleasant in the recollec-
tion , as well as when under our eve : a generous
action described in words or colors , occasions a
fensible emotion , as well as when we see it per-
formed: and when we ressed upon the distress of
any person, our pain is os the lame kind with what
we felt when eye-witnesies. In a word , an agree-
able or disagreeable object recalled to the mind in
idea, is the occasion os a pleasant or painful emo-
tion, of the same kind with that produced when
the objed was present: the only difference is, that
an idea being fainter than an original perception,
the pleasure or pain produced by the former , is
Thus, a {pleading oak raises a pleasant emotion, by
means of its color, figure, umbrage, be: it is not the
color, striflly {peaking, that produces the emotion, but
the tree colored : it is not the figure abstracHy consider-
ed that produces the emotion , but the tree of a certain
sigure. And hence by the way it appears , that the
beauty of such an objeit is complex 9 resolvable- into seve-
ral beauties more simple.
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Emotions are railed in us , not only by the qua-
lities and adions of others , but also by their seel-
ings : I cannot behold a man in distress . without,
partaking os his pain ; nor in joy, without parta-
king os his pleasure.
The beings or things above described , occasion
emotions in us , not only in the original survey ,
but also. when recalled to the memory in idea : a
field laid out with tafte , is pleasant in the recollec-
tion , as well as when under our eve : a generous
action described in words or colors , occasions a
fensible emotion , as well as when we see it per-
formed: and when we ressed upon the distress of
any person, our pain is os the lame kind with what
we felt when eye-witnesies. In a word , an agree-
able or disagreeable object recalled to the mind in
idea, is the occasion os a pleasant or painful emo-
tion, of the same kind with that produced when
the objed was present: the only difference is, that
an idea being fainter than an original perception,
the pleasure or pain produced by the former , is
Thus, a {pleading oak raises a pleasant emotion, by
means of its color, figure, umbrage, be: it is not the
color, striflly {peaking, that produces the emotion, but
the tree colored : it is not the figure abstracHy consider-
ed that produces the emotion , but the tree of a certain
sigure. And hence by the way it appears , that the
beauty of such an objeit is complex 9 resolvable- into seve-
ral beauties more simple.
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