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... pleasure. How much happier are they? The pleasures which are agreeable to nature are within the reach of all, and therefore can form no distinction in favor of the rich. The pleasures which art forces up are seldom sincere, and never ...
... pleasure. How much happier are they? The pleasures which are agreeable to nature are within the reach of all, and therefore can form no distinction in favor of the rich. The pleasures which art forces up are seldom sincere, and never ...
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... pleasure and pain. They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant. Here there ... pleasures or pains which belong to these several tastes; but then the power of distinguishing between the natural ...
... pleasure and pain. They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant. Here there ... pleasures or pains which belong to these several tastes; but then the power of distinguishing between the natural ...
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... pleasure or pain some particular man may find from the taste of some particular thing. This indeed cannot be disputed; but we may dispute, and with sufficient clearness too, concerning the things which are naturally pleasing or ...
... pleasure or pain some particular man may find from the taste of some particular thing. This indeed cannot be disputed; but we may dispute, and with sufficient clearness too, concerning the things which are naturally pleasing or ...
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... pleasures of the sight are not near so complicated, and confused, and altered by unnatural habits and associations ... pleasure. The effect of the drug has made us use it frequently; and frequent use, combined with the agreeable effect ...
... pleasures of the sight are not near so complicated, and confused, and altered by unnatural habits and associations ... pleasure. The effect of the drug has made us use it frequently; and frequent use, combined with the agreeable effect ...
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... pleasure in them. There is in all men a sufficient remembrance of the original natural causes of pleasure, to enable them to bring all things offered to their senses to that standard, and to regulate their feelings and opinions by it ...
... pleasure in them. There is in all men a sufficient remembrance of the original natural causes of pleasure, to enable them to bring all things offered to their senses to that standard, and to regulate their feelings and opinions by it ...
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