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EITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 
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ON TRAGEDY & THE INTEREST IN TRAGICAL 
REPRESENTATIONS, 
AN ESSAY: 
BY THE REVEREND GEO. WALKER, F. R. Si 
And Professor of Theology inthe New College, Manchester. 
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The propensity which human natute has, in 
every age and nation, discovered for spectacles 
and representations of a tragic kind, though it 
be universally confessed, that the sensations 
and passions excited thereby are in their 
nature painful, and often exquisitely so, is at 
first view so singular and contradictory a pheno-~— 
menon, as could not fail to draw the attention of 
moralists and philosophers; and challenge all 
their ingenuity to reconcile so irregular a trait 
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