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110. Anger is a painful emotion excited by a perception 

 of an apparently unjust attack on our person, reputation or 

 property or other rights, or on those of persons with whom 

 we are connected by ties of love, friendship, or esteem. It 

 is slight or aggravated, in proportion to our constitutional 

 irritability, the apparent magnitude of the offence, and the 

 relation the offender stands in towards us ; thus we are more 

 hurt by the infidelity of a wife, than by injuries received from 

 a brother or sister ; and more by the injustice of these than 

 by that of remoter relatives ; more by that of persons whom 

 we have obliged, than of those with whom we are not so con- 

 nected; more by wrongs suffered from inferiors, than by those 

 committed by supeiiors; as the sense of the injuries received 

 from superiors is tempered by the respect we owe them: 

 hence the injuries of a father, unless extreme, arc more calmly 

 endured. 



111. Anger, apparently ca//«, yet still subsisting, is called 

 resentment — this too has its degrees ; for there are slight and 

 also deep resentments. Its lowest degree is called dis- 

 pkasiwe. 



112. J7Jfj'/o'Hfl/ioH denotes a higher degree of anger, called 

 forth by signal instances of ingratitude, perfidy, disappoint- 

 ment, or wounded pride. 



113. Rage is the highest and most turbulent degree of an- 

 ger, excited by the same causes, and embittered by aggra- 

 vated circumstances, or iincominon irrital)ility. 



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