...conversing together and contributing to each other's pleasure and entertainment. Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble...commonly denominated the more luxurious ages. Nor are they advantageous in private life alone; they diffuse their beneficial influence on the public, and...

...conversing together, and contribute to each other's pleasure and entertainment. Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble...them. The more men refine upon pleasure, the less they indulge in excess of any kind; because nothing is more destructive to true pleasure than such...

...are much less frequent than great pains. 4131 Hume : Essays. I. Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion. The more men refine upon pleasure, the less will they indulge in excesses of any kind. 4132 Hume : Essays. XXIV. Of Refinement in the Arts. The value which all men put upon any particular...

...accept, the fewer penalties rou will have to endure, and the fewer punshments to enforce. Ruskin. ie more men refine upon pleasure, the less will they indulge in excesses of any kind. ' tu inc. ie more of the solid there is in a man, the ess does he act the balloon. Sfurgeon. ie more...

...sich, das soziale Empfinden wird stärker, die Menschlichkeit nimmt zu. „Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble...and are found, from experience as well as reason, to bc peculiar to the more polished, and, what are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages."58)...

...positively related aspects of one and the same "enlightened" age.9 As Hume put it, "industry, knowledge and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble chain, and are found, to be peculiar to the more polished, . . . the more luxurious ages."10 The principle that informed...

...and entertainment." Hume's summing up brings all three effects together: "Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble...are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages" (£ 271). To those three good effects Hume adds a fourth, almost as an afterthought: men will indulge...

...conversing together, and contribute to each other's pleasure and entertainment. Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble...are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages. . . . But industry, knowledge, and humanity are not advantageous in private life alone: They diffuse...

...standard of morality improved by innocent luxury. In short, "industry, knowledge, and humanity . . . are found, from experience as well as reason, to be...are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages." Smith took this argument as the starting point for his analysis of the breakup of feudal society. He...

...to "an encrease of humanity, from the very habit of conversing together". "Thus industry, knowledge, and humanity, are linked together by an indissoluble chain, and are found... to be peculiar to the more polished, and more luxurious ages" (EM2713). The language of politeness...