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Anna Letitia Barbauld: The awakenings of...

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The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

Source: An Inquiry Into Those Kinds of Distress Which Excite Agreeable Sensations, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, 1773.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld, (Jun 20 1743-1825), English poet, writer; She was one of the foremost radical intellectual women of her time; edited the fifty volumes of The British Novelists, 1810.


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