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C Punishment analysed into its various possible Modes.

powers. A man then may be restrained from doing, or made
not to do, what he has a mind to do: or he may be constrained
or made to do what he has a mind not to do.

Restraint then may affect him in two ways; in his passive
powers by causing him not to suffer what he has a mind to suffer:(a)
in his active powers by causing him not to do what
he

Note.

(a) It is the misfortune of our own language, that it has no verb in it,
at least I cannot find any, that without violence done to it can be made
to express the being passive in a state of pleasure; for enjoying seems
to import activity. The inimitable language of the Greeks, infinitely
more copious and more ductile, not only employs the verb corresponding
to our verb to suffer in both meanings indifferently,
but furnishes a verb on purpose to denote the pleasurable
meaning: , to suffer pleasurably. Even the barren and
intractable language of the Latins admits the using the verb pati
in a pleasurable sense. "Fortiter malum qui patitier, idem post
"patitur bonum", says Leonida in the Asinaria of Plautus.+ + Act 2. Sc. 2. One MS. indeed adds politur. I could rather wish for the Credit of the Latin language, that the other reading may prove the right one.

As to our own language it was till at a very late period of
it

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