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

occasions we either approve or disap|prove, we shall find that our emotion in one case is often totally different from that in an|other, and that no common features can pos|sibly be discovered between them. Thus the approbation with which we view a tender, delicate and humane sentiment, is quite dif|ferent from that with which we are struck by one that appears great, daring and mag|nanimous. Our approbation of both may upon different occasions be perfect and intire; ••ut we are softened by the one, and we are ••levated by the other, and there is no sort of ••esemblance between the emotions which ••hey excite in us. But, according to that ••ystem which I have been endeavouring to ••stablish, this must necessarily be the case. ••s the emotions of the person whom we ap|••rove of are quite opposite to one another ••nd as our approbation arises from sympathy ••ith those opposite emotions, what we feel ••pon the one occasion, can have no sort of ••••semblance to what we feel upon the other. ••ut this could not happen if approbation ••onsisted in a peculiar emotion which had no|••••ing in common with the sentiments we ap|••••oved of, but which arose at the view of those ••••ntiments, like any other passion at the view
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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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