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If he refrains abstains from taking the pleasure
in question, it is on one or other I
suppose, or all together of these 4 accounts.
Either because he thinks he shall displease
the Deity; and thereby incur either here or
hereafter a proportionable quantity of punishment that
Or because he thinks he shall fall under
the punishment of the Law.
Or because he thinks he shall lessen forfeit to a
certain degree the goodwill of his acquaintance, to begin
with his children and his Wife's relations
Or because he thinks he shall forfeit his to a
certain degree the Wife's goodwill of his wife: losing lose to a some
undefinable portion certain degree of the indefinite but numerous
assemblage of little physical pleasures which he
might otherwise have expected from her services:
expose himself to the pain of her being
witness to her to complaints her reproaches, and her
tears.
In short one might venture to put it to any
man of common discernment and common
candour, to say, whether supposing the reflection
in a man of his having done his duty were
supposing it attended with no other consequence good or
bad to him it could give him any pleasure,
and what in such case could be his idea
of his duty.
The pleasure that given him by the experience he
has had of his strength of mind, which is calculated
to assure him of the pleasures fortify quiet him against the apprehension of
the pains he may have to expect resulting as punishment from for yielding
to temptation in any future instances: and to
assure him of the pleasures to accrue to him
as rewards for the resisting it.
P.S. I acknowledge the favour of your kind
letter: and tho' I could have wished to have
seen some more express assurances of what your
not being pleased displeasure by my letter: I was so apprehensive of my having
not being displeased your displeasure by my letter: am happy to
find an indirect tinkering of it, in the kind concern
& trouble
you took have been taking to
provided my
health and
accommodation.
Take away all these considerations, and and
what was called
in the first place, to abstain would not be his
duty: in the next place, supposing it were I ask what man
is there alive would do it?
Now if it is on this first account that he
abstains: it is from the apprehension of some
pain to be inflicted on him by the Deity
that he abstains: which pain is either a
pain of the body, or some pain which he could have no idea of if he had not had
it from his body. For it is from the body
that men learn what pain is, and obtain
as adequate an idea of it, as any, who
do not know what sort of pleasure that
is fulfilling what one thinks one's duty.
If on the second the case is too pleased to
need
If on the 3d
What pleasure would a man find at the reflecting
that the inhabitants of Saturn (supposing there
are any) or the animals that are produced
from an infusion of peppermint for a day or
two?
Knowledge of the Distances of the Pens and Pencillation x are less X
Distances of the Planet useful because
it leads to Geography to Navigation to Clockmaking.
... and he perceives that if it was not for something else, they would be good for nothing
that something else is always physical
pains and pleasure.
Verités concession l'homage l'age ne s'attachere qu' á celles qui lui sont .
Succour of the indifferent—Theatrical representation
—Games of chance & skill
Game of Chess in particular.
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