A peevish, pettish temper "disarms the Heart of its natural Integrity; it induces us to throw away our true Armour, our natural Courage, and cowardly to commit our selves to the vain Protection of others, while we neglect our own Defence"
— Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)
Date
1728
Metaphor
A peevish, pettish temper "disarms the Heart of its natural Integrity; it induces us to throw away our true Armour, our natural Courage, and cowardly to commit our selves to the vain Protection of others, while we neglect our own Defence"
Metaphor in Context
This Folly is often occasioned by that Delight which most Men find in the Pity of others under Misfortunes; those especially, who are continually indulged as the Favourites of Families or Company, being long enured to the Pleasure arising from the perpetual Marks of Love toward them from all their Company, and from their tender Sympathy in Distress: this often leads them even to feign Misery to obtain Pity, and to raise in themselves the most dejected Thoughts, either to procure Consolation, or the Pleasure of observing the Sympathy of others. This peevish or pettish Temper, tho it arises from something sociable in our Frame, yet is often the Fore-runner of the greatest Corruption of Mind. It disarms the Heart of its natural Integrity; it induces us to throw away our true Armour, our natural Courage, and cowardly to commit our selves to the vain Protection of others, while we neglect our own Defence.
(p. 87)
(p. 87)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" in Liberty Fund's OLL
Citation
8 entries in ESTC (1728, 1730, 1742, 1751, 1756, 1769).
See An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations on the Moral Sense. By the Author of the Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. (London: Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne, for John Smith and William Bruce, Booksellers in, Dublin; and sold by J. Osborn and T. Longman in Pater-Noster-Row, and S. Chandler [London] in the Poultrey, 1728). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Francis Hutcheson, An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, With Illustrations on the Moral Sense, ed. Aaron Garrett (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002).
See An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations on the Moral Sense. By the Author of the Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. (London: Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne, for John Smith and William Bruce, Booksellers in, Dublin; and sold by J. Osborn and T. Longman in Pater-Noster-Row, and S. Chandler [London] in the Poultrey, 1728). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Francis Hutcheson, An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, With Illustrations on the Moral Sense, ed. Aaron Garrett (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002).
Date of Entry
08/18/2005
