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

to him, without feeling all the ago|nies of shame and horror, and consterna|tion. When his passion is gratified, and he begins coolly to reflect on his past con|duct, he can enter into none of the mo|tives which influenced it. They appear now as detestable to him as they did always to other people. By sympathizing with the hatred and abhorrence which other men must entertain for him, he becomes in some measure the object of his own ha|tred and abhorrence. The situation of the person, who suffered by his injustice, now calls upon his pity. He is grieved at the thought of it; regrets the unhappy effects of his own conduct, and feels at the same time that they have rendered him the pro|per object of the resentment and indigna|tion of mankind, and of what is the na|tural consequence of resentment, venge|ance and punishment. The thought of this perpetually haunts him, and fills him with terror and amazement. He dares no longer look society in the face, but ima|gines himself as it were rejected, and thrown out from the affections of all mankind. He cannot hope for the consolation of sym|pathy in this his greatest, and most dread|ful
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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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