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iends ali iis lurid darkness to despuir. Good, as si te and permanent, WinS our consederace; but as evit threatens it, Ra- Duo distracis us. Good done by us eliciis selfestimation; enil committed by us silis us With ghame and remor8e. Such is the summary into Whicli I venturo to methodise thepassions of the human mind. Alany varieties Will eastly tahetheir place among the bolder and elementary classes. Thesemay be compared to the semitones of the chromatio scale, Or tothe gentie blending of the prismatic colours. Upon these passioris it Will noW be proper to offer somegenerat CommentS.
Complacenm toWards ideat or absolute sood is a nobio passion. It has hio commerce with ali that is lair and lovely. It lingors amidst the visioris and archetypes of morat beauty.
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fastens iapon abstraci or poSitive evit, may be not only innocent but laudable : it is virtuous to Ahian ali that may vitiate, to abhor that whicli is evit, as it is natural to stirink Dom pain and physical harm. We may hale it With a perfeci hatrod. It is possibie, nevertheless, that halred may See in good iis very provocation. It is thWarted and reproved by it. The light disturbs. The loveliness embitterS. The destre of particular acquisitions is the goad os generaleXertion. It aWakens the hiisband man to his toti: it harnosses the warrior sor the sight. Αs ambition, it may strive to read iis history in a gratefiat country's eye ; or, like Hyder Aly, in the emphatic language of Burhe, blast it With one storni of
Famo is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mino)To scoria deligitis, and live laborious Jays. '
Dissust and aver Sion, the eXtreme of deSire, are most properemotions when deeiis and principies of evil are presented besorous : but too frequently they are intolerant and rankling pre-judices. Admiration is something more than crude astonishment: it relates to Wortis of poWer, or qualities of conduci, Whicli areelevated above our ordinary conceptions. When the emotion passes beyond this, it is sublima ted into aure. Thero is nothingnobler, or more rapturouS, in the mind, than this forni os reverentiat admiration. It is the foui in iis highest stretch, and yetsweetest caim. It is the asony and the peace of ecstasy. It is the tronibling os delight. And the holier aspects of virtve have osten claimed this profound impression. Profligacy has beenabashed in the presence of these examples. Our great poetdescribos his siend as penetraled With the sentiment, Ho feli
things of enil Will create it. Crimo has biit to reach a pitch and turpitude, and the well-ordered mind is revolted and shoched.
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We Aliud ter at the recitat. It is a tragedy that malles iis stiri L. A reduced emotion os the fame excitement may be sellat some haggard scenery, the gloomy pass, the bleah precipice, the cataraci torrent, the mountain Scalp ; We are assected by them someWhat in the fame manner as the ancient heroes Were moved when they descended to visit the shades. Another modification os this passion is When Wichedness sends sortii iis desiance of retribution ; we ruin froin the spol as though we dros dediliat the reddest thunderbolt was abolit to fall. Indisnation is kindred to horrore and whilo horror regards the doed itself, itrather marks the principies and sympathies in spite of whichit is dono. Had we been the sirst to gage on the murdered
με Ο, horror, horror, horror i Tongue nor heari Cannot conceive nor name thee t V
-- Penetralia Sparsisse nocturno cruore Hospitis. M
Esteem is the appreciation os certain attributes whichare plensant and gently agree te. It bears amnity to those kinds of excellenco whicli ars milder and more Winning than the objects of admiration. Aiad here it Would bo inexcusabie toomit a reseretice to What is called fi the tender passion. ' Esteomis iis true fource; and when suitors talk of their admiration, they should be peremptortly disinissed, and ali the letters of such
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os oppression, the assertion of principie, the independerico of
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calamity, the endurance of reproach l The philanthropistox ploring the countries of classic story and art, yet but attracted thither, and interested there, by the squalor of the lagaretio, and the rigours of the dungeon : the patriot lining up his intrepid Volce against the tyrant, and hurling desianco at hispo er, though surrounded by ali his courtiers and guards, oui the coli and the scassold : the martyr, meeli and unyield-ing, amid the flames, With not a nerve that stiritalis, With nota Dature that quivers t This is sublime heroism : daring thatshali bo celebrate i When every sanguinary achieVement iS for-gotten. Fear, in the sense of coWardice, is Universalty Stigmati sed . It, as a mental quality, varies litile froni pusillanimityund irresolution. But, nevertheless, fear may be associaled With sensitive delicaoy, with much innocence just aWaking to the discovery of iis danger; it may not only be Falsiars ερ botterpari os valour, ' but there can be nothing irrational and despicabie in keeping the opposite fide of the road When a lion ista Ling iis promenade, or in geliing as fasi as possibio out of the Way of an earlhquake. Fear is only unWortlay, When thejeopardy is sinati, or When the perit is the necessary conditionos attempting the great and the good : the man is a Dol Whodoes not fear the danger Which he cannot, by any combinationos auxiliary circumstances, mate und Vanquisti.
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is certainly very intricate. In tho beauti ut dialogus of Ulysses with his mother, Anticleia, in Hades, he astis laser sitiing shade,
Andromacho is describsed by the fame bard,
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Gratitude disclaims any sympathy With a servile and obsequiolas temper ; but While Some, Dom a misapprehension of the sociat lisse and iis thousand dependericies, appear to think that obligation is intolerable, and the achnowledginent of it d0gra-ding, the truly noble mind never feeis a more fervid glow of pleasure than When numbering up the benesis it has received, and tho Diends to whom it is bound . Gratus, therelare, among the Romans, signissed at orice thankful and pleasant. HowSWeet the eye-beam Which resis on parent or delivereri Howblossed the fixed rapture of that look on heavent Anser is the sudden Deling Whicli is connected With a sense of Wrong. It may have nothing more of resentinent and ill-williti it than the motion os a Diu sole or a nerve quiVering beneathu strohe. To he angry need not be to Sin ; yet it, perhaps, Will
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as parent, frienti, neighbour, and citiZen; Who studies the planos human improvenient; Whose luxury is in doing good; Who asks no other epitaph but the benedictions of his Lind. Goodness and he fili up one monument. ' Enmity and crueityure twin-dragons, and disser Dom anser and reverisse, Simplyas being more gratuitoUS,-the lalter pasSions SuppoSing an occasion of offence,-the former being not only the negations of benevolence, but seeliing to 61id a pretexi for their ravin. Commiseration und congratulation, moving in such disterent spheres, belong to the Same state and temper of mind. Thesrst is more influentiat than the second, hecause it is more imme diately necessary and beneficiat to relieve sussering than to hail pleasuro. Withal it is easter to sympathise in another A SorroW
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is not a stranger to our earth. I lius Thomson, in his Casile of Indolence, describes the essori of the knight:
Contentinent is litile fung by poets, or lauded by romancers, hut it is a sentiment that can never be extolled too highly.
a milk-maid beau ty: yet Who can but love her unaffected manner and her never-sailing smile 8 Submissio h and resis- nation are Worthy of distinction in this calendar; for Whilo conteniment respecis the possession of good, hoWever moderate the portion,-these Unmurmuringly endure the visitations ostrouble. This is triae equanimity. Νor must patience bocastiered. It is an invalu le drudge. It may seem to berelated more to evit than to good : but it is the consciolisnessthat iis good preponderates over iis evil, whicli sortiis iis disposition. Sterne malles a droli remark about patience, vieWed