T 2.1.11.18
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Fourthly, A person in these circumstances naturally conceals his birth from those among whom he lives, and is very uneasy, if any one suspects him to be of a family, much superior to his present fortune and way of living. Every thing in this world is judg'd of by comparison. What is an immense fortune for a private gentleman is beggary for a prince. A peasant wou'd think himself happy in what cannot afford necessaries for a gentleman. When a man has either been accustom'd to a more splendid way of living, or thinks himself intitled to it by his birth and quality, every thing below is disagreeable and even shameful; and 'tis with the greatest industry he conceals his pretensions to a better fortune. Here he himself knows his misfortunes; but as |those, with whom he lives, are ignorant of them, he has the disagreeable reflection and comparison suggested only by his own thoughts, and never receives it by a sympathy with others; which must contribute very much to his ease and satisfaction.
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| Penelhum 1992 | Treatise 2.1.11 T 2.1.11 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …g for my concern for others. This of course is true; but when Hume first introduces it in Treatise 2.1.11, he uses it as a "s… |
| Ainslie 1995 | (T 322-3) T 2.1.11 (7 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …t between our pride (and hence our self-conceptions) and the attitudes of those around us (T 322-3). Those feeling the … |
| Ainslie 2003 | T 2.1.11.14-18 T 2.1.11 (5 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … myself as importantly defined by my family history (through pride or humility in it, see T 2.1.11.14-18, SBN 322-3) that I … |
| Greco 2015 | T 2.1.11 T 2.1.11 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ecome objects of each other's moral evaluations, thanks to the principle of sympathy (see T 2.1.11; T 3.3.2). In this … |