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"The Theory of Moral Sentiments [2nd ed.]"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1761
"I can form a just comparison between those great objects and the little objects around me, in no other way than by transporting myself, at least in fancy, to a different station, from whence I can survey both at nearly equal distances, and thereby form some judgment of their real proportions."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)