A treatise on sympathy, in two parts ... / by Seguin Henry Jackson.

Date:
1781
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Credit: A treatise on sympathy, in two parts ... / by Seguin Henry Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    for inftance, love is a fympathy of con- fcioufnefs, (VII.) to which duration and at- tention are neceffary to give it its full effeCt. The mind is induced to yield to thefe from the pleafure it enjoys from them, though this is often mixed with excruciating anxiety. XV. When the force of an impreffion has con- tinued any length of time, with a corre- fpondent attention of the mind to the impref- hon, the fympathy arifing from it will even continue long after the caufe of impreffion, originally producing it, has ceafed to aft. Thus the recollection of a difagreahle ob- jeft, or melancholy event, will renew the impreffion originally felt from them. The remembrance of abfent love has alfo a fimilar effect. XVI. From length of time, the caufe having' ceafed to aft, the impreffion grows weaker and Weaker, until the fympathy at la ft ceafes altogether. XVII. The fame or fimilar caufe of fympathy again operating, does not fo readily produce 5 the
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