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1819 March 5.

Of To the importance of this pain and thence of all such measures
as promise to contribute to the exclusion of it take this testimony
by Dean Swift in the form of Blessed is an edition to the beatitudes.
Blessed is he which expecteth not for he shall not be
disappointed.

On this ground rests the importance of the task of presenting a just
view of the expectations proper to be entertained in relation to the conduct
of other men at large to wit in respect of such of their actions
by which a man's own happiness may be affected.

If we would love mankind, says DHelvetius you shd. expect little
of them: he might have added — or if we love ourselves
At any rate so far as concerns any sacrifices to be made of their
own happiness to ours the less sanguine our expectations are the
better: so far as disappointment has place — so far as any such
sacrifices fail of being made the less exposed we are to the pain
of disappointment: and the less severe it is in so far as it comes
upon us. In so far as any such sacrifices are really made the more
exquisite is the pleasure: whatsoever pleasure the services thus
rendered, the services considered in themselves might otherwise
produce is will be heightened by the pleasure of surprise: instead of pain
of disappointment comes a pleasure beyond expectation.

Against pain considered as liable to flow from this source
no preservative can be so effectual as that which is applied
by any correct and compleat view of the necessary necessity
of that preponderance which the force of self-regarding affection
is by the unaterable Constitution of human nature destined to
maintain ever sympathetic or social affection.

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Identifier: | JB/014/224/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1819-03-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	224	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	<…> co
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4987
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