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Of Punishments belonging to the Moral Sanction.
To know of it, before I happen to be in a way to suffer from
the denial of those good offices, in a word before I have un
experienced
to my delinquency any of the casual evils annexed by of the moral sanction
to my delinquency I already foresee more or less clearly, and apprehend more or less strongly the loss of those
good offices and of that good will: I feel the painful
sense of shame, the pain of ignominy, I experience, in
a word, the characteristic evil of the moral Sanction,
as the punishment of my misbehaviour. This sense
of shame stamps the marks of guilt upon my deportment.
I then This being the case, a either out of despair I avoid my acquaintance,
or In I put myself in their way: if I avoid them, I
by that means already deprive myself of their good offices: If I put myself in their way, the quilt which is legible
in my countenance, advertises and increases their
aversion: they either give an express denial to my request,
or what is more common, anticipate it by the
coldness of their behaviour. This reception gives fresh
keeness to the sting of shame: or (in the systematical Language
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