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to be the proper object, either of esteem or of reward. But he can easily conceive▪ how the numberless violations of duty, of which he has been guilty, should render him the proper object of aversion and pu|nishment; neither can he see any reason why the divine indignation should not be let loose without any restraint, upon so vile an insect, as he is sensible that he himself must appear to be. If he would still hope for happiness, he is conscious that he can|not demand it from the justice, but that he must entreat it from the mercy of God. Repentance, sorrow, humiliation, contri|tion at the thought of his past conduct, are, upon this account, the sentiments which become him, and seem to be the only means which he has left for appeasing that wrath which, he knows, he has just|ly provoked. He even distrusts the effi|cacy of all these, and naturally fears, lest the wisdom of God should not, like the weakness of man, be prevailed upon to spare the crime, by the most importunate lamentations of the criminal. Some other intercession, some other sacrifice, some other atonement, he imagines, must be made for him, beyond what he himself is ca|pable
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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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