"And with regard, at least, to this most dreadful of all crimes, nature, antecedent to all reflexions upon the utility of punishment, has in this manner stamped upon the human heart, in the strongest and most indelible characters, an immediate and instinctive approbation of the sacred and necessary law of retaliation."
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
10 entries in the ESTC (1759, 1761, 1764, 1767, 1774, 1777, 1781, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1797). A revised title with a complicated textual history.<br>
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See <u>The Theory of Moral Sentiments: By Adam Smith</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T141578">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004894986.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Adam Smith, <u>The Theory of Moral Sentiments</u>, ed. D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1984).