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cannot, it is evident, in any degree alter our sentiments with regard to the merit of him who has bestowed it. No actual correspondence of sentiments, therefore, is here required. It is sufficient that if he was grateful, they would correspond; and our sense of merit is often founded upon one of those illusive sympathies, by which, when we bring home to ourselves the case of another, we are often affected in a manner in which the person principally concerned is incapable of being affected. There is a similar difference between our disapprobation of demerit, and that of impropriety.

d

Lata culpa prope dolum est.

e

Culpa levis.

f

Culpa levissima.

g

See Voltaire.

Vous y grillez sage et docte Platon,

Divin Homere, eloquent Ciceron, &c. 22

h

See Thomson’s Seasons, Winter:

“Ah! little think the gay licentious proud,” &c. See also Pascal.7

i

See Robertson’s Charles V., vol. ii. pp. 14 and 15, first edition.21

j

Raro mulieres donare solent. 8

k

See Plato de Rep. lib. iv.

l

The distributive justice of Aristotle is somewhat different. It consists in the proper distribution of rewards from the public stock of a community. See Aristotle Ethic. Nic. l. v. c. 2.

m

See Aristotle, Ethic. Nic. l. ii. c. 5, et seq. et l. iii. c. 5, et seq.

n

See Aristotle, Ethic. Nic. lib. ii. ch. 1, 2, 3, and 4.

o

See Aristotle Mag. Mor. lib. i. ch. 1.

p

See Cicero de finibus, lib. iii.; also Diogenes Laertius in Zenone, lib. vii. segment 84.

q

See Cicero de finibus, lib. iii. c. 13. Olivet’s edition.

r

See Cicero de finibus, lib. i. Diogenes Laert. l.x.

s

Prima naturæ81

t

See Inquiry concerning Virtue, sect. i. and ii.

u

Inquiry concerning virtue, sect. ii. art. 4; also Illustrations on the moral sense, sect. v. last paragraph.91

v

Luxury and lust.

w

Fable of the Bees.

x

Puffendorff, Mandeville.

y

Immutable Morality, l. 1.

z

Inquiry concerning Virtue.

aa

Treatise of the Passions.

ab

Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, sect. i. p. 237, et seq.; third edition.

ac

St Augustine, La Placette.

ad

Origine de l’Inegalité. Partie Premiere, p. 376, 377. Edition d’Amsterdam des Oeuvres diverses de J. J. Rousseau.

ae

As the far greater part of verbs express, at present, not an event, but the attribute of an event, and, consequently, require a subject, or nominative case, to complete their signification, some grammarians, not having attended to this progress of nature, and being desirous to make their common rules quite universal, and without any exception, have insisted that all verbs required a nominative, either expressed or understood; and have, accordingly, put themselves to the torture to find some awkward nominatives to those few verbs, which still expressing a complete event, plainly admit of none. Pluit, for example, according to Sanctius, means pluvia pluit, in English, the rain rains. See Sanctii Minerva, l. iii. c. 1.7