We admire and intirely go along with the magnanimous effort which he makes for this purpose. We approve of his be|haviour, and from our experience of the common weakness of human nature, we are surprised, and wonder how he should be able to act so as to deserve approbation. Approbation, mixed and animated by won|der and surprize, constitutes the sentiment which is properly called admiration, of which, applause is the natural expression, as has already been observed.
CHAP. II. Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination.
EVEN of the passions derived from the imagination, those which take their origin from a peculiar turn or habit it has acquired, though they may be ac|knowledged to be perfectly natural, are, however, but little sympathised with. The imaginations of mankind, not having acquired that particular turn, cannot enter into them; and such passions, though they
