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When a passion is termed pleasant or painful , we refer to the actual feeling :
when termed agreeable or disagreeable , it is considered as an object of thought
or reflection . A passion is pleasant or painful to the person in whom it exists : it is
...
When a passion is termed pleasant or painful , we refer to the actual feeling :
when termed agreeable or disagreeable , it is considered as an object of thought
or reflection . A passion is pleasant or painful to the person in whom it exists : it is
...
Page 134
Lord Henry Home Kames. him the painful passion of hatred to the malicious
person . We are now prepared for examples of pleasant passions that are
disagreeable , and of painful pafsions that are agreeable . Selflove , so long as
confined ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. him the painful passion of hatred to the malicious
person . We are now prepared for examples of pleasant passions that are
disagreeable , and of painful pafsions that are agreeable . Selflove , so long as
confined ...
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These two emotions , proceeding from different views of the object , have very
little resemblance to each other : and yet their causes are so intimately connected
, as to force them into a sort of complex emotion , partly pleasant partly painful .
These two emotions , proceeding from different views of the object , have very
little resemblance to each other : and yet their causes are so intimately connected
, as to force them into a sort of complex emotion , partly pleasant partly painful .
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| Title | Elements of Criticism, Volume 1 Classics in art and literary criticism Elements of Criticism, Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Author | Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 |
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