 | Joseph Butler - 1849 - 162 pages
...affection, or passion, the object of which is ourselves, or danger to ourselves. Hobbes defines pity, imagination, or fiction, of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense (he means sight or knowledge) of another man's calamity. (c) Thus, fear and compassion would be the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...that something there ia that men call fire, because it warmeth him. [Pity and Indignation.} Pity 13 and ia ijrcatcr, because then there appcareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...but know that something there is tbat men call fire, because it wanneth him. PITY AND INDIGNATION. Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity...happeneth to an innocent man may happen to every man. But when we see a man suffer for great crimes, which we can not easily think will fall upon ourselves,... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...Rochefoucault's definition of Pity is almost identical with that given by Hobbes, who sty les it, " Imagination, or fiction of future calamity to ourselves,...proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity/* After making, as we thought, quite a discovery, we found Hazlitt had, long before, pointed out the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...but know that something there is that men call fire, because it warmeth him. PITY AND INDIGNATION. Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the Reuse of another man's calamity. But when it lightcth on such as we think have not deserved the same,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1852 - 316 pages
...and operations. A large part of Hobbes's philosophy consists in such explanations. Thus he says, " Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity...proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity." The same is the case in his celebrated explanation of laughter : " The passion of laughter proceedeth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...but know that something there is that men call tire, because it wanueth him. [Pity and Indignation,] Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity...lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the eainc, the compassion ig greater, because then there appeareth more j> 'obability that the same may... | |
 | 1854 - 492 pages
...according to his theory, "acknowledgment of power is called Honour;" — " Pity is the imagination of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity," — " Laughter is occasioned by sudden glory in our eminence, or in comparison with the infirmity of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 438 pages
...works of his predecessors. I allude to the account of Pity given by Hobbes, who defines it to be " the imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity."1 In what respect this theory coincides with Mr. Smith's, will appear from the remarks I... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 446 pages
...works of his predecessors. I allude to the account of Pity given by Hobbes, who defines it to be "the imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity."1 In what respect this theory coincides with Mr. Smith's, will appear from the remarks I... | |
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Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. But when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion is greater, because then there appeareth more probability... 
