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THE MAN OF FEELING. 193
CHAP. XL.
The Man of Feeling jealous!
TH E defire of communicating know¬
ledge or intelligence, is an argument
i with thofe who hold that man is naturally
a focial animal. It is indeed one of the
I earlieft propenfities we difcover •, but it
i may be doubted whether the pleafure (for
j pleafure there certainly is) ariftng from it
be not often more felfifh than focial for
we frequently obfefve the tidings of 111
communicated as eagerly as the annunci-
1 ation of Good. Is it that we delight in
obferving the effe&s of the ftronger paf-
[ fions; for we are all philof>phers in this
refpeft •, and it is perhaps amongft the
I fpeftators at Tyburn that the moft ge-
I nuine are to be found.
Was it from this motive that Peter
came one morning into his mailer’s room
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