Map · Book 2: Of the Passions · Part 2: Of love and hatred · T 2.2.5 Of our esteem for the rich and powerful
T 2.2.5.19
SBN 364-5 · cited directly by 2 papers, reached by 1 more through page or section ranges
There is no rule in painting more reasonable than that of ballancing the figures, and placing them with the greatest exactness on their proper centers of gravity. A figure, which is not justly ballanc'd, is disagreeable; and that because it conveys the ideas of its fall, of harm, and of pain: Which |ideas are painful, when by sympathy they acquire any degree of force and vivacity.
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2 of 3 papers cite this paragraph directly; the rest reach it through a page or section range. Snippets are the words around each citation.
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| Henderson 1990 | (T 365) T 2.2.5 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … the idea of self. Elsewhere Hume remarks that the minds ofmen are mirrors to one another (T 365). This is part ofwha… |
| Penelhum 1992 | (T 365) T 2.2.5 (3 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … rightly stresses the importance ofhis remark that our minds are "mirrors to one another" (T 365), and makes clear in… |
| Pitson 2013 | SBN 315, 365 T 2.1.10.9 to T 2.2.5.21 (7 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ation (T 1.4.5.33; SBN 250); wit (T 2.1.7.7; SBN 297); and riches (T 2.1.10.10, 2.2.5.21; SBN 315, 365). In all these case… |