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Copyright 1995, James Fieser (jfieser@utm.edu). See end note for
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Editor's note: "Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion" appeared in 1741
in Volume one of Hume's Essays, Moral and Political. The text file
here is based on the 1777 edition of Hume's Essays and Treatises on
Several Subjects. Spelling and punctuation have not been modernized.
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Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
SOME People are subject to a certain delicacy of passion,
which makes them extremely sensible to all the accidents of
life, and gives them a lively joy upon every prosperous event,
as well as a piercing grief, when they meet with misfortunes
and adversity. Favours and good offices easily engage their
friendship; while the smallest injury provokes their
resentment. Any honour or mark of distinction elevates them
above measure; but they are as sensibly touched with contempt.
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