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C 9
Offences against Adultery. Adultery Conditions Ins.
33.
Facility why reprobated If a man then acquiesces in the such a practise
it is a sign of his indifference; if then he is indifferent
about the her affection for him, it is a sign
her affection for him did not give him much
pleasure. If then her affection did not give him
much pleasure, it is a sign he did not
much pleasure from that source from which
by much the more valuable part of the happiness
a man is capable of is supposed to be derived
Now the bare circumstance of a man's being unhappy
especially unless where any extraordinary
degree of merit is perceived in him which in virtue of
it is conceived that he ought to have been otherwise, and especially where it proceeds from an internal cause
is sufficient to lessen him to a certain degree
in people's esteem. The man at case a mans
appears to be, findis caeteris paribus are other
simple of making his acquaintance. Accordingly
people who are not happy in themselves do their
endeavours to be thought so.
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