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Marathon probably contributed not a little to his acquittal. We 

 may, I think, venture to fay that this image of heroic fortitude 

 had no fmall (hare in caufing that decree by v\hich the Athenians 

 refufed to condemn the friend of Grecian liberty for the unfor- 

 tunate iffue of his counfds. The emotion of fublimitv muft 

 then be allowed fometimes to be attended by defire operating 

 on the will, and there cannot be any rcafon for confidering that 

 emotion in any cafe as entirely diftind from the efFedl of the 

 pathetic, uhich will not equally afied what is acknowledged to 

 belong to the latter. The emotion produced by the pathos of 

 dramatic diftrefs is not often fo flrong as to infpire an adive 

 w'lih of relieving the unfortunate hero or heroine ; and all agree 

 in faying, that tragedies reprcfenting thofe fuiferings with which 

 wc fo inadively fympathize are yet pathetic. The emotions then 

 both of the fublime and the pathetic are fometimes of an adive 

 and fometimes of an inadive kind : There can be no reafon 

 for diftinguifhing them from each other in this refped ; and if 

 the fublime be confidered as deeply interefting us, and therefore 

 in a greater or lefs degree agitating the mind, it cannot be im- 

 proper to regard it as a part of that general clafs which includes 

 all the caufes of agitation. The divifion of the claffes bf fublime 

 objeds will enable us to determine which are the emotions 

 attendant on the perception of fublimity. The defcription or 

 conception of fuperior beings may, as in the examples already 

 given, be attended by reverential love and gratitude, or by terror. 

 The fublime of human charader produces emotions of love and 

 refped by a difplay of all the nobler qualities of our nature; 

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