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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 2.2.5.8

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Thus we have found, that the first principle, viz. the agreeable idea of those objects, which riches afford the enjoyment of; resolves itself in a great measure into the third, and becomes a sympathy with the person we esteem or love. Let us now examine the second principle, viz. the agreeable expectation of advantage, and see what force we may justly attribute to it.