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Page 276
... pleasure arising from its grati- fication is as much my own pleasure , as the pleasure self - love would have , from knowing I myself should be happy some time hence , would be my own pleasure . And if , because every partic- ular ...
... pleasure arising from its grati- fication is as much my own pleasure , as the pleasure self - love would have , from knowing I myself should be happy some time hence , would be my own pleasure . And if , because every partic- ular ...
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... pleasure ; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for poetry , as they express it , as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope - dancing , or Frontignac , or Sherry . Aristotle , I have been told , hath said ...
... pleasure ; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for poetry , as they express it , as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope - dancing , or Frontignac , or Sherry . Aristotle , I have been told , hath said ...
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... pleasure . 1 would not be misunderstood , but wherever we sympathize with pain it will be found that the sympathy is produced and carried on by subtle combinations with pleasure . We have no knowledge , that is , no general principles ...
... pleasure . 1 would not be misunderstood , but wherever we sympathize with pain it will be found that the sympathy is produced and carried on by subtle combinations with pleasure . We have no knowledge , that is , no general principles ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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