The Theory of Moral Sentiments Or An Essay Towards An Analysis of the Principl
The Theory of Moral Sentiments Or An Essay Towards An Analysis of the Principl
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Ilfe- hoeds arc by no means io innocent. They are ail miiehievous, and meant to lower other people. Lie is lull of indignation at the un- ]ult lupcriority, n ; he thinks it, which is given to them, fie views them with malignity and L^rrf, and, in talking of them, oiten endea- L 1 vours, 150 Of the Char a c t e R Part VI.
vours, as much as he can, to extenuate and leiTen whatever are the grounds Upon which their fuperiority is fuppofed to he founded. Whatever tales are circulated to their difad-... vantage, though he feldom forges them him- felf, yet he often takes pleafure in believing them, is by no means unwilling to repeat them, and even fomctimes with fome degree of exaggeration. The worft falfehoods of va- nity are all what we call white lies : thofe of pride, whenever it condefcends to falfehood, are all of the oppofite complexion.
Our diflike to pride and vanity generally difpofes us to rank the perfons whom we accufe of thofe vices rather below than above the common level. In this judgment however, I think, we are moft frequently in the wrong, and that both the proud and the vain man are often (perhaps for the mod part) a good deal above it ; though not near fo much as either the one really thinks him- felf, or as the other wifhes you to think him.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Ilfe- hoeds arc by no means io innocent. They are ail miiehievous, and meant to lower other people. Lie is lull of indignation at the un- ]ult lupcriority, n ; he thinks it, which is given to them, fie views them with malignity and L^rrf, and, in talking of them, oiten endea- L 1 vours, 150 Of the Char a c t e R Part VI.
vours, as much as he can, to extenuate and leiTen whatever are the grounds Upon which their fuperiority is fuppofed to he founded. Whatever tales are circulated to their difad-... vantage, though he feldom forges them him- felf, yet he often takes pleafure in believing them, is by no means unwilling to repeat them, and even fomctimes with fome degree of exaggeration. The worft falfehoods of va- nity are all what we call white lies : thofe of pride, whenever it condefcends to falfehood, are all of the oppofite complexion.
Our diflike to pride and vanity generally difpofes us to rank the perfons whom we accufe of thofe vices rather below than above the common level. In this judgment however, I think, we are moft frequently in the wrong, and that both the proud and the vain man are often (perhaps for the mod part) a good deal above it ; though not near fo much as either the one really thinks him- felf, or as the other wifhes you to think him.
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