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Pounds and no more. The two pleasures are must as to you be reputed are
equal. How much money would you give
to purchase immediately such a pleasure? 5 Pounds and
no more. How much money would you give to
exempt yourself immediately from such a pain? 5 Pounds
and no more. The pleasure and the pain must
be reputed equivalent.
From what source those such pleasures or those such pains It may apply to one kind of pleasure or pain as well as to another.
may issue , while they whether the pleasure
[be consist in the pleasure] of drinking so many bottles of
wine, in enjoying the favours of such a woman,
in possessing the respect or good will of
such a man, in relieving such an object in
distress, in doing such a service to one's country
or to mankind in general, in - avenging re-
one's self in such a manner upon of such a person;
whether the pain pleasure be in it's consequences productive of more
pleasure, or of pain or of neither: the pain
of more pain or of pleasure or of -neither:
[in a word whether they be fruitful, pure, or
insulated] are quiet circumstances which so long
as the pains or pleasures in question be consider'd
in themselves and without regard to consequences, make no difference with
respect to the propriety of speaking of them, as
being in money of such a value. If I having 1 a crown
in my pocket and not being aday thirsty, hesitate whether I shall buy a bottle
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037a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
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