Map · Book 3: Of Morals · Part 3: Of the other virtues and vices · T 3.3.4 Of natural abilities
T 3.3.4.12
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The decorum or indecorum of a quality, with regard to the age, or character, or station, contributes also to its praise or blame. This decorum depends, in a great measure, upon experience. 'Tis usual to see men lose their levity, as they advance in years. Such a degree of gravity, therefore, and such years, are connected together in our thoughts. When we observe them separated in any person's character, this imposes a kind of violence on our imagination, and is disagreeable.
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| Garral 2007 | (T 606-614) T 3.3.3.8 to T 3.3.5.2 (19 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …alent and virtue elicit more or less the same sympathetic moral feelings in the spectator (T 606-614); second, that there… |
| Greco 2015 | T 3.3.4-5 T 3.3.4.1 to T 3.3.5.6 (21 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …n Book 3 of the Treatise and in the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (see esp. T 3.3.4-5; EPM 6-8), one clea… |