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E g may not abstain from offences to be ranged
under this head. Pain, the pain of disgust: disgust by what causes produced: generally
the Sensibility imposed by costly education & habits.
No a just object of sensation or contempt, except what is rendered
at the expense of probity. Prudence only suggests the proposals of not being
to individuals sources, the of intent when it renders in
object of hatred and contempt. no feat of the competitor of may would
In regard to the primary virtues, it seldom happens
the occasions are comparatively rare in which for the duration
to be to
of this pursuit there exists between them any considerable
competition.
Be this person who he may, what what in order to gain
his favour his amity what is the natural, the obvious
course? Within the field sphere of your power, to combine
in the habit of rendering to him all sorts of services.
To the value of the services thus to be rendered, what are the
considerations that set the limit? In the first place, considerations
suggested by probity and those suggested by prudence suggested by the virtue of probity, and considerations
suggested by the virtue of prudence.
The limits applied by probity to the pursuit of the object of
this desire are the same as those applied by the that same
primary virtue to the pursuit of the object of the motives
of wealth. If, as a is to a considerable extent is apt to
be the case, the value of the services good expected at the hands
of the person whose amity is courted, consists in the
tendency they have to confer on the person courting
portion more or less considerable of the matter of wealth
of the desired amity is enough for regarded as a source of evident
the pursuit of amity is in nobody pro tanto the pursuit of the
matter of wealth: whereupon and in so far as the pursuit of
the matter of wealth with and the pleasures and exemptions
from it is repugnant to probity, so is
the pursuit of amity.
(say for shortness the person courted)marginal note text
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