Leviathan eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 732 pages of information about Leviathan.

Leviathan eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 732 pages of information about Leviathan.

Anger
Sudden Courage, anger.

Confidence
Constant Hope, confidence of our selves.

Diffidence
Constant Despayre, diffidence of our selves.

Indignation
Anger for great hurt done to another, when we conceive the same
to be done by Injury, indignation.

Benevolence
Desire of good to another, benevolence, good will, charity
If to man generally, good nature.

Covetousnesse Desire of Riches, covetousnesse:  a name used alwayes in signification of blame; because men contending for them, are displeased with one anothers attaining them; though the desire in it selfe, be to be blamed, or allowed, according to the means by which those Riches are sought.

Ambition
Desire of Office, or precedence, ambition:  a name used also in
the worse sense, for the reason before mentioned.

Pusillanimity
Desire of things that conduce but a little to our ends; And fear of
things that are but of little hindrance, pusillanimity.

Magnanimity
Contempt of little helps, and hindrances, magnanimity.

Valour
Magnanimity, in danger of Death, or Wounds, valour, fortitude.

Liberality
Magnanimity in the use of Riches, liberality

Miserablenesse
Pusillanimity, in the same WRETCHEDNESSE, Miserablenesse; or parsimony;
as it is liked or disliked.

Kindnesse
Love of Persons for society, Kindnesse.

Naturall Lust
Love of Persons for Pleasing the sense onely, natural lust.

Luxury
Love of the same, acquired from Rumination, that is Imagination of
Pleasure past, luxury.

The Passion Of Love
Jealousie
Love of one singularly, with desire to be singularly beloved,
the passion of love.  The same, with fear that the love is not
mutuall, jealousie.

Revengefulnesse
Desire, by doing hurt to another, to make him condemn some fact
of his own, Revengefulnesse.

Curiosity Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not onely by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by praedominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continuall and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnall Pleasure.

Religion Superstition
True Religion
Feare of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined
from tales publiquely allowed, religion; not allowed, superstition. 
And when the power imagined is truly such as we imagine, true religion.

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