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Happiness and Unhappiness their Ingredients

Pleasure of Expectation.
Itdepends not upon the reality of the object.
of may never come: he may have no money in
short there may be no such man. This
makes no difference: So long as I expect him and
his money with equal ap confidence my
pleasureis the same.

Mustapha is a good Mussulman . He
believes relgiously in the Houris those blackey'd
virgins of Paradise, whose virginity
is like the Widow's cruize. As it happens There are no
Houris at all in Paradise: according to the best
intelligence, consequently as we happen to know there will be none
for Mustapha. But this makes no sort of
difference to Mustapha so long as he is
agraid there will be.

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Happiness and Unhappiness their Ingredients.

Pleasure of Possession. Example. eat as I did before. Spending A The constant therefore
I possess it, I feel a pleasure.what use I please of it I possess it. 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 Mins. What
does it consist in? in the idea of eating in
expecting to eat. To speak therefore with respect
to eating I might be called a pleasure of
expectation. But whence comes this pleasure of
expectation? From my posessing the piece
of money. It may therefore on that account
be stiled a pleasure of possession.

the money is an object of possession. It is the
Instrument of my pleasure of possession. It is
valuable to me by reprsentation in as much
as I shall get the Bread for it in exchange.
The Bread is an immediate instrument of the
Pleasure of enjoyment: of the pleasure I shall
have in eating. The Oven it was baked in
copiedis a more remote. The faggot the Oven was
heated with the hand toil that cut the faggot from

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	079	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field	happiness and unhappiness - their ingredients
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f6 / / / f9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	25488
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