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Offences against Condition - Adultery
to] is in a way to be acquainted with any other person
of the opposite sex. Nature prompting them
it is next to certain that in this case they will
cohabit.
In process of time Pyrrha becomes pregnant -
She , and from time to time feels the various
indispositions incident to that situation condition. By
and by the fruit of her womb becomes a burthen which grows
greater and greater till at length she is relieved from
it by an effort of nature which is attended with
the most excruciating pains. These pains have
her in a state of debility from whence she with
difficulty recovers in the space of less or Days.
Mean time she is deliver'd of a child All this time the advantages of the connection
have been clear on the side of Deucalion, and
attended with very great disadvantages on the side
of Pyrrha.
Mean time she is delivered of a child. In the
possession of this child she finds a kind of instinctive pleasure which
more than counterbalances the trouble of nursing carrying
it about and attending it. Deucalion in the mean
time reaps a certain proportion of the same pleasure.
It is probably a less than Pyrrha's: but
then it is pure and not counterbalanced attended
by the with any of the inconveniences troubles to which she is
subject. There On this point too the advantages are clear on the side of Deucalion and attended with great disadvantavantages
on the side of Pyrrha.
Identifier: | JB/071/091/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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offences against condition - adultery |
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jeremy bentham |
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