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Pleasure of Possession. the Mind. Plea
I was hungry Yesterday. I had a piece of Silver Money. I
gave it to a Baker who gave me bread for it. I eat.
I felt a pleasure. To day I have no piece of Silver. Money.
Yet I begin to be hungry. But I am hungry as I was before. I find a piece of Silver. Money:
I know that by carrying this piece of Silver to the same man
to whom I carried the former piece to I may get bread and
eat as I did before. The instant therefore I find possess this
silver money I feel a pleasure.
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Pleasure of To speak therefore Possession
I feel pleasure. whence comes it?
Now whence comes this pleasure? from expecting to eat
with respect to eating, therefore it might be called
It is therefore a pleasure of expectation. But whence
comes this pleasure of expectation? from my possessing
the piece of money. My pleasure I feel may therefore
the piece of silver money is therefore [also] a pleasure of
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on that account be stiled a pleasure of
possession.
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To what part of me does this second pleasure make
itself perceived? To my Body? no, that was only
when I was eating. Tis to my mind. Tis therefore
a pleasure of the mind.
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I eat my piece of Bread; perhaps as soon as I got it for
my piece of silver money: if so my pleasure of expectation ceased
that instant, my pleasure of enjoyment taking
it's place — perhaps I staid to carry it home first. If so
my pleasure of expectation possession was made to continue protracted till I got home.
By parting with the bread money and taking the bread for it
The instrument of pleasure was changed but the quality
of the pleasure remained. My pleasure still continued a pleasure of expectation It remained continued such till the
[pleasure of eating this pleasure of enjoyment, or pledge in hand,
took it's place. that is, the pleasure of getting came and eating took its place.
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Instrument of enjoyment external.
I call The Bread I call in this case the instrument of enjoyment
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It was seatred seated without me, without my body
it was not a part of me: it was external to me I call it therefore the external
instrument of enjoyment.
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Internal or Organ
I call my tongue, my palate, my stomack also organs instruments
or organs of enjoyment. They are seated as it were within me: they are make parts
of me. They are stiled organs of my body. I call them therefore internal instruments or organs of enjoyment.
The Money was not good to eat: it was not therefore the immediate instrument of the enjoyment & had no contemplation neither was it of any use to make bread with like the Oven the bread was baked in: but it was of use to go in exchange for the bread: I put it from me: and the Baker not opposing, took the bread for it.
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The pleasure that which the bread produces in me
it produces, by the immediate application of it
to my organs. I call it I call the Bread, the immediate instrument of enjoyment
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Immediate
The pleasure which the piece of money produces in me
it produces remotely by the intervention of the bread
Remote I still The piece of Silver Money it serves one to procure: I call it the remote instrument of enjoyment. But it is the immediate object of possession; The
Remote. immediate instrument of the pleasure of possession.
It is an external instrument: for it is without an
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internal instrument in this case there is none: the pleasure
it produces makes itself perceived immediately to my mind.
Pleasure of Expectation.
I am hungry I long for bread, I have none. I have no Silver. Money Comes a
man to me and says, In an Hour's time I will give you you shall have
a piece of Silver money to buy bread with.[+] [+] I hear him. I believe him. I expect the money. Expecting it I feel a pleasure.
what is this pleasure? It is not a pleasure of enjoyment
for as yet I eat not. It is not a pleasure of possession for
as yet there is nothing for me to possess nothing a pleasure however it is: it still however is a pleasure of what sort? After all, it is a pleasure. I see a Man I know I ask money of him. I says he have none; but there yonder comes a man who has: I will speak to him in your favour: that he may will give you some. It is a pleasure so we may call it I will call it of bare expectation.
A pleasure of expectation, this & of expectation only.
Let this alone therefore stand be distinguished by the name of a pleasure
of expectation. The ethos name of pleasure of possession
will be sufficient serve to Characterize the other. preceding species.
Possession. when there is nothing as yet possessed. The man may never come: he may have
no money: there may be no such man.
INTROD. CH. II. Happiness and Unhappiness. their ingre- [II] dients. Transcribed. Waste
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