 So that •when you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing, but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it.  A Treatise of Human Nature - Page 467by David Hume - 1888 - 709 pagesFull view - About this book
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...object. So that •when you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing, but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling...contemplation of it. Vice and virtue, therefore, may be compared to sounds, colours, heat and cold, which, according to modern philosophy, are not qualities... | |
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 | 1847 - 586 pages
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...? .... So that when you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing, but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling...contemplation of it. Vice and virtue, therefore, may be compared to sounds, colours, heat and cold, which, according to modern philosophy, are not qualities... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...? .... So that when you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing, but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling...contemplation of it. Vice and virtue, therefore, may be compared to sounds, colours, heat and cold, which, according to modern philosophy, are not qualities... | |
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