...whole world to the seratehing of my finger." That " it is not eontrary to reason, for me to ehoose my total ruin to prevent the least uneasiness of an...and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and ean never pretend to any other offiee, than to serve and obey them." If we take the word reason to...

...sense. We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other...

...Nature, has employed two sections upon it, the titles of which are. Moral Distinctions not derived from Reason, and Moral Distinctions derived from a...than to serve and obey them." If we take the word reason to mean what common use, both of philosophers, and of the vulgar, has made it to mean, these...

...sense. We speak not strictly and philosophically, when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, ^and ought only to be, the slave of the...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other...

...Nature," has employed two sections upon it, the titles of which are, Moral Distinctions not derived from Reason, and Moral Distinctions derived from a...than to serve and obey them." If we take the word reason to mean what common use, both of philosophers and of the vulgar, hath made it to mean, these...

...somme passion or affection. Hum. nat. II p. 245 sqq. 2) Ess. II p. 215. 3) Hum. nat. II p. 247 sq, Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. 4) Ib. II p. 248 sqq. 5) Ib. II p. 308 sqq.; ess. H p. 120 sqq. S. 6. îtyilof. xii. -22 bofj bíe...

...sense. We speak not strictly and philosophically, when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other...

...speak not strictly and philosophically, when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Keason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions,...pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some other...

...speak not strictly and philosophically, iffhan^wa ~ialk of _the combat of passio|]t.and af reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any ot^rjOj^^j^aJL»AQL §§IX£^^^T^eX them, As this opinion may appear somewhat extraordinary, it may...

...offensive paradoxes are put forward, for the sake of showing ingenuity in defending them ; for instance, that " Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave...to any other office than to serve and obey them." In the Essays he forbore their repetition. In the Treatise he is a sort of hard, uncompromising necessarian,...