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[3] EXEMPTIONS ACCIDENT [14]
occurring while they leave
full force against human objects, check
indeed but do not extirpate it as applied to objects
of inferior sensibility — It continues to
out on all sudden provocations from whatever
objects, till damped by the sudden habitual and as it
were mechanical consideration <add> glance of inability, though
I do not remember any instance where the
for another's pain has lasted out in me
a whole day, yet I never hurt my foot against
a stone that I did do not wish for the first instant
to break it to pieces — if the wind blows
a grain of dust in my eye I wish to am
for the instant, to whip it, as Xerxes was the
Sea & upon the same principle, the only difference
in the subject between us is that Xerxes being a tyrant absolute monarch
& in a rude age was accustomed to check some
of his first emotions & I am mine.
One may observe
in men a gradation
in [the intensity of]
their resentment
from man human to
inert matter objects
corresponding to the
appearances of
which they exhibit
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LIBELS
Give a
to the Author not
enterd
What has...
produced but a transitory administration? an
-ration to transitory, that if these pages
hands of the pastry-cook for one twenty
I would venture to prophecy it will not
be understood to what it is I allude —
A writing whose object is the Satire against of ind
is a meteor which dazzles the eyes for
-ment and is extinguished vanishes into Air vapour: a writing
has for its object the extraction of
is a Star, which fixed in the firmament
shines with an inextinguishable & steady light
enlightens illuminates with undiminished lustre generated as the
& to some future generations —
So true it is, that by a late constitution of the
less inevitable than just, the above talents thus of
talents are is ever punished by oblivion
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