A philosophical treatise on the passions ... / [T. Cogan].

  • Thomas Cogan
Date:
1800
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    Horror. Horror is that very drong and painful emotion excited by the view or contemplation of fomething peculiarly atrocious in the conduct of another; by fomc vice which exceeds the ufual ex- travagance of vice ; enormities that lurpafs the bounds of common depravityfuch as impurities too grofs to be named) profligacies too fhocking to be repeated, and cruelties that make us lliudder at the recital. It may alfo be excited by the extremes of agony mental or corporeal, by (offerings and pu- nifhments at which our natures recoil. This paffion may be deemed the antipode of ad- miration. The one is infpired by the contemplation of furpaffing excellency; the odier by the excefs of vice and wretchednefs. As that is one of the moil pleafing fenfations we can poffibly enjoy, this is among the mod painful we can poffibly fuffer. Scenes of the above defcription excite a tremour upon the mind; a fpecies of terror fcarcely equal- led by the mod lively apprehenfions of danger. Indignation expreffes a drong and elevated dii- upprobation of mind, which is alio infpired by fome- thing flagitious in the conduct of another. But it does not always fuppofe that excefs of depravity which alone is capable of committing deeds of hor- ror. Indignation always refers to culpability of conduct; and cannot like the paffion of horror be extended to didrefs either of mind or body. It is produced
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