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Ins. Corporal Punishment analysed.

A man may be constrained to suffer what he has
a mind not to suffer: or he may be restrained
or incapacitated from suffering what he has a mind to suffer: or, as
or as it is more common to say, from enjoying what he has
a mind to enjoy.[a] —
[a][b] From Ins.11 NOTE
It is the misfortune of our own language, that it has no verb
in it, at least I can not find any, that expresseswithout violence
done to it, can be made to express the being passive in a state of pleasure: [+] The inimitable desire
[+] for enjoying seemss
to import activity language of the Greeks, infinitely more copious and
more ductile tractable than ours, not only admitts of the
employs the wordverb corresponding to our verb to suffer
[{Greek text}] in both sensesmeanings indifferently, but furnishes
a verb on purpose to denote the pleasurable sensemeaning:
{Greek text}, to suffer pleasurably. The Even the barren and intractable language of the Latins admitts
the using the verb pati in a pleasurable sense.
"Fortiter malum qui patitur, idem post patitur bonum",
says Leonida in the Asinaria of Plautus.+

+ Act.2. Sc.2. One Ms.
indeed made potitur. I could rather wish hope for
the end it of the Latin language
that the other reading
may prove the right one.

As to our own language, it was not till at a very
late period of it that any attempts were have been made
to accommodate it to the philosophical investigationsdisquisitions:: and
for the purpose of common loss there can seldom be
any occasion to make any distinction between sufferingtwo states to intimately connected as that of suffering pleasurably and enjoying. As to the painful sensations
they come upon us but too fast of their own accord: but
pleasurable ones can scarce be experienced without some degree
of activity. At any rate If the first moment of pleasure finds us passive [+]:
that pleasure of itself being commonly enough to and dispose
[+] the second make us
active: the us in some sort to activity, for the sake of protracting and it.
Music unexpectedly strokes my ear: for the first moment I am
passive: but if it is agreeable to me, I immediately apply my faculties
in an active manner to attend to it. A fine prospect meets
my eye: for that first moment I am passive: but if it gives me
pleasure, I immediately set my eyes to work to investigate it's
beauties.

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Folio number	017	Info in main headings field	punishment analyzed
Image	002	Titles	notes / text
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
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