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Courage, intrepidity, ambition, love of glory, magnanimity, and all the other shining virtues of that kind, have plainly a strong mixture of self-esteem in them, and derive a great part of their merit from that origin. The elogiums either turn upon his power, or riches, or family, or virtue; all of which are subjects of vanity, that we have already explained and accounted for. The moment you commit an quit holding back, all sorts of unforseen incidents, meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. Now virtue and vice are attended with these circumstances. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. When they would oppose the popular notions on this head, they always paint out the evils, which this supposed virtue has produced in human society; the subversion of empires, the devastation of provinces, the sack of cities. Perhaps it will appear afterwards, that our sense of some virtues is artificial, and that of others natural. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence.