"Sentiments, designs, affections, though it is from these that according to cool reason human actions derive their whole merit or demerit, are placed by the great Judge of hearts beyond the limits of every human jurisdiction, and are reserved for the cognizance of his own unerring tribunal."
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
10 entries in the ESTC (1759, 1761, 1764, 1767, 1774, 1777, 1781, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1797). A revised title with a complicated textual history.<br>
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See <u>The Theory of Moral Sentiments: By Adam Smith</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T141578">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004894986.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Adam Smith, <u>The Theory of Moral Sentiments</u>, ed. D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1984).