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Ins. <head> Corporal Punishment analysed.</head>
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]
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[a][b] From Ins.11 NOTE
It is the misfortune of our 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 table than , not only admitts of the
more ductile maleable than our, 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.+
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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caroline vernon |
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