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and recollection are not the same thing. There may be recollection without
any work done by imagination, – there may be imagination without
any distinct recollection of the individual objects by which the matter
for the operations of the imagination has been furnished.

No situation is there out of which imagination may
not extract pleasure. Nothing so painful as not to offer to the
fancy matter materials pregnant with enjoyment. When a man
is laboring under any disorder pleasure may be derived from the
imagination of the mere absence of that disorder, – from the mere
imagination unaccompanied by the expectation, & thus
unaccompanied even by hope. But in such a case it must be
the sufferer's endeavor to abstract his thoughts as effectually
as possible from the consideration that the relief is not obtainable
– he must attach his thoughts them as strongly as they can be attached
to the recollection of his former state & the several enjoyments
furnished by it antecedently to the commencement of the disorder
– shutting out the idea of the hopelessness of their return.

To such a state of mind it is not uncommon
for reflection to discipline us. Of the pleasures of the past of
boyhood – & youth – of the glory in the grass & in the sunshine
on the flower – thousands think & talk with a satisfaction which
the thought that those pleasures are irrevocably departed
has not been able to imbitter.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	404	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f82
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5620
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