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Happiness and Unhappiness their Ingredients. (16
Comprehensiveness of the Division here given. To do attempt this would be a curious and interesting
business undertaking :: but happily not here a necessary one .
Pleasures of the sorts last just enumerated , are
not among those which it has been the
custom or is in the power of Law to give
or to take away .
It is sufficient that they are pleasures : nor should
there it be found that they at bottom are but Pleasures
of Expectation dependent on this that
are called sensual , would there be any inconvenience
in ranking speaking Of them as independen original pleasures
and ranking them with those of enjoyment .
At any rate <add>Tis but an affair of words . At any rate</add> They have their attendant pleasures
of expectation : they have their correspondent
pains of Prevention Disappointment , and Apprehension .
Tis for this reason it will be convenient
to speak of them as Pleasures of enjoyment ,
though they should be found to have the
expectation of other pleasures namely , those P called
sensual , for their basis . We come now to an
enquiry of more practical importance - how to
estimate their value, of them ; and thence of the causes that produce them:
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them and . what we shall have more frequent
occasion to speak of , the Pains that are opposed
to them .
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