PART I

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Of the Propriety of Action.

SECTION I.

Of the sense of propriety Page 1.

CHAP. I. _Of Sympathy_ ibid.

CHAP. II. _Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy_ 9

CHAP. III. _Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or dissonance with our own_ 14

CHAP. IV. _The same subject continued_ 19

CHAP. V. _Of the amiable and respectable virtues_ 27

SECTION II.

Of the degrees of the different passions which are consistent with propriety 33

CHAP. I. _Of the passions which take their origin from the body_ 34

CHAP. II. _Of those passions which take their origin from a

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CHAP. III. _Of the unsocial passions_ 46

CHAP. IV. _Of the social passions_ 54

CHAP. V. _Of the selfish passions_ 58

SECTION III.

Of the effects of prosperity and adversity upon the judgment of mankind with regard to the propriety of action; and why it is more easy to obtain their approbation in the one state than in the other 64

CHAP. I. _That though our sympathy with sorrow is generally a more lively sensation than our sympathy with joy, it commonly falls much more short of the violence of what is naturally felt by the person principally concerned_ ibid.

CHAP. II. _Of the origin of ambition, and of the distinction of ranks_ 74

CHAP. III. _Of the stoical philosophy_ 89

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