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Definition of Passions
1. passion [n] - See also: passion
Literary usage of Passions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Of the will and direct passions. SECT. IV.—Of the Causes of the Violent
passions.1 There is not in philosophy a subject of more nice speculation than this ..."
2. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1888)
"What we call strength of mind, implies the prevalence of the calm passions above
the violent; tho' we may easily observe, there is no man so constantly ..."
3. Descartes, His Life and Times by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1905)
"In Descartes' view, passions are thus caused by the movement of the "spirits,"
... The passions "incite the soul to desire the things for which they prepare ..."
4. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"The Use of passions. Written in French byJ. ... Despair, Hope, Boldness, Eschewing,
Hatred, Love, and Desire: underneath are the following ines : " passions ..."
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