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

revenge it, he would still feel enough of both these sentiments to embitter the whole of his life: He would still regard himself as the natural object of the hatred and indig|nation of all his fellow-creatures; and if his heart was not grown callous by the ha|bit of crimes, he could not think without terror and astonishment even of the man|ner, in which mankind would look upon him, of what would be the expression of their countenance and of their eyes, if the dreadful truth should ever come to be known. These natural pangs of an afrighted conscience are the daemons, the avenging fu|ries which in this life haunt the guilty, which allow them neither quiet nor repose, which often drive them to despair and distraction, from which no assurance of secrecy can protect them, from which no principles of irreligion can entirely deliver them, and from which nothing can free them but the vilest and most abject of all states, a com|pleat insensibility to honour and infamy, to vice and virtue. Men of the most detest|able characters, who, in the execution of the most dreadful crimes, had taken their measures so coolly as to avoid even the sus|picion of guilt, have sometimes been driven
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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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