Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1756. Excerpt: ... SEC T. III. . , *,' .'. Particular Divisions of the Affections dW Passions. ', {-'J .1 ... / -I;... :.".-•- -' ."'*' .'.' 0 TV" i .i I. nr< HE Nature of any Language has S E CT. JL considerable Influence upon Mens III. Reasoningsr oh "att Subjects, making them ^--v--J often take all those Ideas whidrr are denoted by the same Word to be the fame; and on the other hand, to look upon different Words as denoting different Ideas. We shall ,find that this Identity of Names has occasioned much Confusion in Treatises of the Passions; while some have made larger, and some smaller Collections of Names, and have given the Explications of them as an Account of the Passions. Cicero, in the Fourth Book of Tufculan neDi-viQueflions, gives from the Stoicks, this gene->*°/'** ral Division of the Pajjions: First, into Love and Hatred, according as the Object is good or evil; and then subdivides each, acrcording as the Object is present or expeBed. About Good we have these two, Libido & Lœtitia, Dessire and Joy: About Evil we have likewise two, Metus Csf Ægritudo, Fear and Sorrow. To this general Division he subjoins , Se Ct.subjoins many Subdivisions of each of these III. four Passions; according as in the Latin 'Tongue they had different Names for the several Degrees of these Passions, or for the same Passion employed upon different Objects. A Writer of Lexicons -would probably get the most precise Meanings of the Latin Names in that Book; nor would it be , useless in considering the Nature of them. •~~ -.,----, The Schoolmen^ as their Fund of Lan fuage was much smaller, have not L£o full Enumerations of them, going no further than their admired Arisiotle. II. It is strange that the thoughtful Malebranche did not consider, that "£)