The Comforts of Human Life Or Smiles And Laughter of Charles Chearful And Mart
The Comforts of Human Life Or Smiles And Laughter of Charles Chearful And Mart
Robert Heron
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A coach breaks down; the company within, are thrown out; one has a leg broken, G 2 64 COMFORTS OF HUMAN another an arm dislocated, a third, a fine woman, her face bruised and irrecoverably disfigured. A bustle ensues. You ap- proach at the moment of tumult and distress and are a spectator of the whole! And is there no comfort, think you, to be extracted from the sight ? It affords, in truth, a great deal of comfort. One feels an instinctive sentiment of satisfaction, that the misfortune is not ...one's own. - Even the most tenderly beneficent cannot put indulge some complacent emotion of emulation or pride, at sight of any thing, that in any respect, humbles another, if but for a moment, beneath ourselves. The surprize of the accident interests our cu- riosity. What is painful and piteous in it, to the sufferers, soothes our hearts with that self-approbation which ever accompa- nies the consciousness of virtuous sensi* bility. We acquire from the sight of the fear, suffering, weakness, and fortitude, \ new acquaintance with their varied imagery bv which our knowledge of human cha racter and fortunes is necessarily enlarged .
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