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impbrtance deserves . A third is bewildered by it Amidst ( h < s ilf-Jtfanged and ill ^ proportioo ^ d Eissociations it suggests- it fourth is suspended in ill-timed astonishment t ^ ?
, " Defixis oculis et toto corpora torpet / Tttere Afethiis moral and immoral modlfidaiti ^ as of surprise . It is trttethai Stirpfrisd is an tevoltmtary affeiDtbn in every toirn of its developnient , 9 ttid thererfote not immediately one t 6 which correcting appliance ^ , whfcthfct of praise or blame , of f&tfaird , ptniislihlent , or persuasion , are to be addressed . of arci
Btft fltill thete are Sohie nibde ^ surprise ^ hicti dethmental to the greattest happiness of th ^ individual who feeU tiiMa , % ivt # hd Itriight , by proper ex ^ edfents , modify them and feonlrcft ; and frbihth ^ immorality of such negligence the thtirgk il t ^ ariESferable ih £ secondary ' aentop to thfe results ^ ¦ Ofthfe ithniorgLlities 6 f surprise , &n& wonder , and astonishmeht , the vatifeties are multiplied and tnany * charactered . V
To begin with the lowest , there is the paltry pettifogging kji ^ teiicy of small news , accepted in infinitesimdl morsels , which finds its gratification in the gossip of newspaper * ot drawing-room , or the passengers in the street , the scandal of lii ^ h life dr low , and the " horHble " from any quarter . With this nddy b ^ classed the fondnetss of small niind ^ of producing effectfc oil superior minds , by little attempts to surprise them , and the no less affectation of the all-knowing ones , who tvill risk any display 6 f ignorance rather than own to surprise at anything .
The love of startling ( slaps on the back and shakes of thfe hand , worthy of James II ' s . thumb-screws included ) , and the liability to being startled , the nervousness , ( a word which for ihii sense ,. I would were changed for nervishness , so generally tn 6 seriotisilli fastened by a silly affectatitin ) , are Coghate vices of notable heinousness .
Grtoeral maders and excursive students give way culpably to an appetite for mere novelty , for small surprise ; and about th £ confines of Science , wonderers wander , amilsed ffct the niere phantasmagoria of its wonderful achievements . Hdw littfe niot ^ do pbpular l ( icture « i so plentiful abound i&s , thaa toihifcttfr t 6 this effectless Stithti % . » / Thete are ^ ond ^ erg ! in aft ; dwfellen * in h ^ gdtie erafc ; ^ onderbi ^ at wprnrput fortes ; those t ^ ho jareekfiibia lAfuOng t »« dead , straw of ancient Jharv < est ^ , wj ^ iiih ^ ug ljit , to j ^| the matiufe tS forward that tvhicli is juit green iaboy 6 t | ie-g ^ p ^ d . j Tlie ^ a re wonder ^ ra in religion / wonqe ^ r ^ *^ Mft ^^ j wona ^ r ef 6 « tt our glbrion ( i 6 Cofftstitiutibn i ^ Ph ^ ilh . c ^ d S tiitO ; sfe ^ kfets kh&T ^ citement t&th ^ brir ^ contempj atiofe of the greates t ifa&fetoWits of tKb Wbridi bi » t Wtidse MtitiMtM * i ^ Inde ^ fad ^ m
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/24/
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