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scarcely those that discover no sign of pain, as fish, insects, 

 &c. 



105. Commiseration, as Dr. Johnson well observed, differs 

 from pity in this, that it includes no desire of relief.* 



10(). llcmorse is the painful emotion which follows the judg- 

 ment of self-condemnation for the commission of any immo- 

 ral act or criminal neglect ; or more shortly, it is a pain ex- 

 cited by the consciousness of guilt. 



107. This pain is more or less violent according as the act 

 or conduct that occasions it was morel or less criminal, tire 

 frame of mind of the sufterer more or less sensible and ten- 

 der, or stern, obdurate and insensible. 



108. Its lower degrees are frequently unattended to, or pa- 

 tiently submitted to, rather than abandon the criminal pursuit 

 that occasions it; to blunt its pungency it is often attributed 

 to the prejudices of education, or unreasonable scrupulosity. 

 But the highest degree produces the most tormenting agonies, 

 despair, and even suicide. 



109. Repentance is remorse acknowledged by the sufferer 

 to be just, and therefore accompanied with regret, dislike, 

 detestation or horror of the delinquency that occasions it, in 

 proportion to its criminality or atrocity; a firm resolution of 

 abandoning it in future, and an ardent desire of forgiveness 

 by the person oficnded, particularly the Supreme Being; and 

 of repairing, if possible, the wrong or injury committed. 



110. Anger 



• BosivcU's Life of Johnson, vol 1. p. 365. 



