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Again , we know by experience , that , for the enjoyment of pleasure , no great efforts of power are at all necessary ; nay , we know that such efforts would go a great way towards destroying our satisfaction : for pleasure must be ...
Again , we know by experience , that , for the enjoyment of pleasure , no great efforts of power are at all necessary ; nay , we know that such efforts would go a great way towards destroying our satisfaction : for pleasure must be ...
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Pleasure and pain . — There be other simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection ; viz . , pleasure or delight , and its opposite , pain or uneasiness ; power , existence , unity . 2.
Pleasure and pain . — There be other simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection ; viz . , pleasure or delight , and its opposite , pain or uneasiness ; power , existence , unity . 2.
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Happiness should not , for instance , be confused with mere pleasure . The latter which Johnson defines as immediate “ gratification of the mind or senses , ” is certainly a good , but he so ...
Happiness should not , for instance , be confused with mere pleasure . The latter which Johnson defines as immediate “ gratification of the mind or senses , ” is certainly a good , but he so ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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