Is one though this: the words used to desribe character in the 19th century were not grammatically the same kind as the ones used in the 18th Century. Cf 'proud', aloof' in Austen and a 'scoundrel' in the 18th??

The later ones point to something in the person that often result in behaviour of a certain sort, but which don't necessarily do so. Eg D'Arcy is generous but that remains hidden for part of the time.

What character words are used inTom Brown's? And in Hume?

How does Hume refer to Rousseau?

In the 18th Century the talk is og habits. Habits can't be hidden in the same way. A person can have one set of habits in the country and another in the town, but a habit is a petern of behaviour and not a motivation. Being proud is being motivated in a certain way.

Goethe

said of one of Haydn's quartets that it was like a conversation between four intelligent friends.

Dostoyevsky

“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner..."

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72c/chap21.html

He stopped suddenly, on coming out on the bank of the Little Neva, near the bridge to Vassilyevsky Ostrov. “Why, he lives here, in that house,” he thought, “why, I have not come to Razumihin of my own accord! Here it’s the same thing over again. . . . Very interesting to know, though; have I come on purpose or have I simply walked here by chance? Never mind, I said the day before yesterday that I would go and see him the day after; well, and so I will! Besides I really cannot go further now.”

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Moore

Is the carfeul scrutiny of the meaning of words connected in Moore's case with introspectionism? Russell (a connected point) seemed to think you could tell what beliefs you had through itrospection.

Carlisle:

Bentham or Benthamites:

'foolish Word-monger and Motive-grinder, who in they Logic-mill hast an earthly mehanism for the Godlike itself, and would fain grind me outVirtue form the husks of Pleasure." T. Carlisle, Sartor Resartus Ch.7. Smith fn ch10, 2, p.883.

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