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"Whig"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Work title:
"The Theory of Moral Sentiments"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Date: 1761
"It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counteracting the strongest impluses of self-love."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1790
"All the splendour of the highest prosperity can never enlighten the gloom with which so dreadful an idea must necessarily over-shadow the imagination; nor, in a wise and virtuous man, can all the sorrow of the most afflicting adversity ever dry up the joy which necessarily springs from the habit...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)