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Part II. EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. io5
PART II.
Emotions and Pafsions as pleafant and painful,
agreeable and difagreeable. Modifications
of thefe Qualities.
It will naturally occur at firsE, that a discourse
upon the passions ought to commence with ex-
plaining the qualities now mentioned : but upon
trial, I found that this explanation could not be
made distinclly , till the difference ssiould lirst be
ascertained between an emotion and passion , and
their causes unfolded.
Great obscurity may be observed among wri-
ters with regard to the present point : particularly
no care is taken to distinguish agreeable from plea-
san t, disagreeable from painsul; or rather these
terms are deemed synonymous. This is an error
not at all venial in the science of ethics ; as in-
stances can and shall be given, of painful passions
that are agreeable, and of pleasant passions that are
disagreeable. These terms, it is true, are used in-
differently in familiar conversation, and in composi-
tions for amusement ; but more accuracy is requi-
red from thole who profess to explain the passions.
In writing upon the critical art , I would avoid
every refinement that may seem more curious than.
PART II.
Emotions and Pafsions as pleafant and painful,
agreeable and difagreeable. Modifications
of thefe Qualities.
It will naturally occur at firsE, that a discourse
upon the passions ought to commence with ex-
plaining the qualities now mentioned : but upon
trial, I found that this explanation could not be
made distinclly , till the difference ssiould lirst be
ascertained between an emotion and passion , and
their causes unfolded.
Great obscurity may be observed among wri-
ters with regard to the present point : particularly
no care is taken to distinguish agreeable from plea-
san t, disagreeable from painsul; or rather these
terms are deemed synonymous. This is an error
not at all venial in the science of ethics ; as in-
stances can and shall be given, of painful passions
that are agreeable, and of pleasant passions that are
disagreeable. These terms, it is true, are used in-
differently in familiar conversation, and in composi-
tions for amusement ; but more accuracy is requi-
red from thole who profess to explain the passions.
In writing upon the critical art , I would avoid
every refinement that may seem more curious than.