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Pleasure of Possession. the Mind. Plea I was hungry Yesterday. I had a piece of Silver Money. I
gave it to a Baker who gave me bread for it. I eat.
I felt a pleasure. To day I have no piece of Silver. Money.
Yet I begin to be hungry. But I am hungry as I was before. I find a piece of Silver. Money:
I know that by carrying this piece of Silver to the same man
to whom I carried the former piece to I may get bread and
eat as I did before. The instant therefore I findpossess this
silver money I feel a pleasure.

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Pleasure of To speak therefore Possession I feel pleasure. whence comes it?
Now whence comes this pleasure? from expecting to eat
with respect to eating, therefore it might be called
It is therefore a pleasure of expectation. But whence
comes this pleasure of expectation? from my possessing
the piece of money. My pleasure I feel may therefore
the piece of silver money is therefore [also] a pleasure of
on that account be stiled a pleasure of
possession.

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To what part of me does this second pleasure make
itself perceived? To my Body? no, that was only
when I was eating. Tis to my mind. Tis therefore
a pleasure of the mind.

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I eat my piece of Bread; perhaps as soon as I got it for
my piece of silver money: if so my pleasure of expectation ceased
that instant, my pleasure of enjoyment taking
it's place — perhaps I staid to carry it home first. If so
my pleasure of expectation possession was made to continue protracted till I got home.
By parting with the bread money and taking the bread for it
The instrument of pleasure was changed but the quality
of the pleasure remained. My pleasure still continued a pleasure of expectation It remained continued such till the
[pleasure of eating this pleasure of enjoyment, or pledge in hand,
took it's place. that is, the pleasure eating took its place.

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Identifier: | JB/070/046/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	9-16
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field	introd. ch. ii happiness and unhappiness - their ingredients
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a2
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"transcribed - waste" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	23161
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