ON SELF-LOVE
Lecture IV. of the series. Cf. the essay on ‘Self-Love and Benevolence (A Dialogue)’ printed in vol. XII. pp. 95 et seq., and An Essay on the Principles of Human Action (vol. VII. pp. 383, et seq.), from which a great part of the present Lecture is taken.
[133]. ‘Wise saws and modern instances.’ As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. [136]. ‘Mutual interest,’ etc. Jonathan Wild, Book I. Chap. 4. [139]. Shaftesbury or Hutcheson. Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), author of the Characteristics (1711), and Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746), a supporter of Shaftesbury’s ethics. [140]. ‘Pity is only,’ etc. See Hobbes’s Human Nature, Chap. IX. Sect. 10. [147]. ‘The jealous God,’ etc.
‘Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.’
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 75–6.
‘Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.’
Pope, An Essay on Man, l. 218.