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it was intended, it will be the more so. A palace, on the contrary, will always be agreeable: yet its remote effects may of|ten be inconvenient to the publick. It may serve to promote luxury, and set the example of the dissolution of manners. Its immediate effects, however, the con|veniency, the pleasure and the gaiety of the people who live in it, being all agree|able, and suggesting to the imagination a thousand agreeable ideas, that faculty gene|rally rests upon them, and seldom goes fur|ther in tracing its more distant conse|quences. Trophies of the instruments of musick or of agriculture, imitated in painting or in stucco, make a common and an agreeable ornament of our halls and dining-rooms. A trophy of the same kind, composed of the instruments of surgery, of dissecting, and amputation-knives; of saws for cutting the bones, of trepanning instruments, &c. would be ab|surd and shocking. Instruments of sur|gery, however, are always more finely polished, and generally more nicely adapt|ed to the purposes for which they are intended, than instruments of agricul|ture. The remote effects of them too,
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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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