Historical Illustrations of the Origin And Progress of the Passions, And Their Influence On the Conduct of Mankind : With Some Subordinate Sketches of Human Nature And Human Life V. 1

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But the acuteness of the at- tending physician unravelled the mystery ; for dis- BENEVOLENT AFFECTIONS. ^53 covering that the pulses of his patient quickened, that his countenance was flushed, and a tremor agi- tated his frame, as only one individual approached, he became master of the secret. When this was impaired to Seleucus, he, in the excess of paternal affection, was content to resign his queen to the arms of his son. * Such a concession must not be estimated by the moral principles of mo...dern times, but by a sense of the generosity and the tenderness of the agent.
Many distracted mothers have perished for their children, and' it is not improbable that the same could be told of fathers. The examples are rare, however, not only from the weaker affection per- haps, but from the lesser dependence and more un- usual association with this than with the other pa- rent. A traveller of the preceding century relates, that a rebellious viceroy in Syria, who was also a hereditary prince, consented to substitute himself for his son condemned to death, in order that the authority and inheritance of his family might be preserved from the overweening power of the sove- reign who threatened its absolute extirpation.


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