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afFecling. Or by signal, physical or mental abilities, moral 

 excellence, or power beneficently exerted. 



143. Its degrees are proportioned to those of the qualities 

 or abilities that demand it, and the sensibility or aft'ectibility 

 of the person in whom it is excited. Its highest degrees are 

 astonismeut, enthusiastic pleasure, or 7'apture ; but this is 

 produced only by music. Not only these qualities, but the 

 persons that possess them are objects of admiration. 



144. Those that possess superior intellectual abiUties are 

 called great men, as Aristotle, Newton, Euler, Locke, Berke- 

 ley, Grotius and Aquinas ; but those that excel in arts derived 

 from the imagination, are not called great men but great 

 poets, great painters, &c. Yet as great musicians, such as 

 Handel and Sacchini (if such be) excite astonishment, and 

 fascinate the senses, I think they too may be called great 

 men. 



145. "When wonder is associated with remorse, or aroused 

 by any dreadful object in a higher degree, it is called amazC' 

 ment, and excites horror and stupefaction ; its lower degrees 

 produce perplexity and anxiety. Insensibility to remorse is 

 called obduracy ; self-possession in perplexing circumstances, 

 is called presence of mind. 



146. When associated with reprobation, it has no particu- 

 lar name, but inspires a proportionate degree of abhorrence, 

 detestation and indignation. 



147. When 



