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them all possible, capable of being put in practise a new sensation might be
produced.

As to exter internal instruments, no new ones
are to be made — God has made them what
they are to be — The number & now and then the species of External ones, Legislators
have in modern times applied themselves
to make, increase & with considerable success — I
am speaking of the bounties given in our own & many other nations for the
production of the various new articles of wealth.
As to new modes of applying them together application, these could
any such now be found be now discovered far from meeting
with encouragement from Legislators, would
probably be meet with them nothing from them but odium or thing
contempt. Those who have It must be confessed that such individuals as are
known or supposed to have signalized themselves
in this way have not been very successful —
Noah &c. v. 2.

To the inventor of Nero say the learn who should invent a new pleasure, Nero say the
Historians, Nero, without troubling himself
in which of these 3 ways it was to be composed, the affair was to be brought about

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published a reward — Declaimers, Moralizers decent who support
with perfect very tolerable patience the detail of the horrible
courses he took to spread pain scatter misery
among mankind, bear it altogether when they
come to this, can hold no longer. Indeed It must be
had the reward premium been claimed & given, the approbation
of a man like Nero, so longer as the
pleasure should be unknown, would have been
no great presumption and it's known — By a judge, so weak and brutal
like as that Tyrant, a small space of present
pleasure to himself, tho' bought at the expence
of ever so much pain of his own afterwards or ever
so much pain of other men, might perhaps have been reworded as a clear accession to the stock. This is what they might have taken occasion to observe — But do they? no such thing. To hear them, nobody but would imagine, but that the of their declamations is not a certain pleasure, as being productive of greater pain, but as being pleasure.
A person, whose character, tho' for the purpose
of contrasting it, one is loth to bring to mind
in the same page with Nero's has appeared to
announce to mankind new & inexpressible
pleasures [in a life to come]. This person memory
should be holden in abhorrence by the declaimers I am
speaking of, if consistent a degree as
much superior to that in which Nero's should
as his pleasures are superior to Nero's
pleasures.

A pleasure, approved embraced by him in the moment of
novelty, tho' ever so much so his might have been to nobody else's taste.
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Legislators it has been said deal but little
in pleasures of their own making — Pains, and unhappily it cannot be otherwise are is
the articles they are most eminent for — They
make it as it were with their own hands
It is their staple manufacture — What
apartments of it may but answer best to them their purpose
[is what] we shall come hereafter to enquire.

Bacon Boyle Newton, Galileo, with a long & illustrious
train of disciples have invented a
rich and inexhaustible fund of pleasures —
An ardent imagination, a weak judgment
and a heart panting for distinctions have
raised up as determined a declaimer a declaimer as violent determined against
the pleasures these men have invented, as

against any that Nero would have approved.

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in language or to speak more strictly a pretended cause
of pleasure, how much truly so ever so to him (for
a while) might not have been proved so to him upon the

ballance, laymen nor at any time to any one else.

I have been forced to use the word Possession
The idea to the word Possession
is too complex to be here developed — We
must take up for the present, with that
action, vague and ill-determined as it may
be that is generally current or rather, I
should say with any of those different
notions (for there's the rub) which different
readers may be disposed to entertain of it.
Different and fluctuating as they may be, they may be found to have so
much in common as may answer the present
purpose.

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