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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...

than mortal who can support in the same manner the most dreadful calamities. We feel what an immense effort is requisite to silence those violent emotions which natu|rally agitate and distract those in his situa|tion. We are amazed to find that he can command himself so intirely. His firmness, at the same time, perfectly coincides with our insensibility. He makes no demand upon us for that more exquisite degree of sensibility which we find, and which we are mortified to find, that we do not pos|sess. There is the most perfect correspon|dence between his sentiments and ours, and upon that account the most perfect pro|priety in his behaviour. It is a propriety too, which, from our experience of the usual weakness of human nature, we could not reasonably have expected he should be able to maintain. We wonder with sur|prise and astonishment at that strength of mind which is capable of so noble and ge|nerous an effort. The sentiment of com|pleat sympathy and approbation, mixed and animated with wonder and surprise, con|stitutes what is properly called admiration, as has already been more than once taken notice of. Cato, surrounded on all sides
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The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,
1759.

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