 | William Paley - Ethics - 1788 - 584 pages
...by which we perceive pleafure, are blunted and benumbed, by being frequently exercifed in the fame way. There is hardly any one who has not found the...between a gratification, when new, and when familiar ; or any pleafure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. 3<//y, The eagernefs for... | |
 | 482 pages
...by which we perceive pleafiire are blunted and benumbed, by being frequently exercifed in the fame way. There is hardly any one who has not found the...between a gratification when new and when familiar, and any pleafure which does not become indifferent, as it grows habitual. 3. The eagernefs for high... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 414 pages
...areblunted and benumbed, by being frequently exercifed in the fame way. There is hardly any one who ha» not found the difference between a gratification when new and when familiar, and any pleafure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. 3. The ea,gernefs for high... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1806 - 502 pages
...It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed, by being frequently...difference between a gratification, when new, and when famil^ iar; or any pleasure, which dees not become indifferent as it grows habitual. There is hardly... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 412 pages
...It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently...between a gratification, when new, and when familiar ; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grcnvs habitual. Sdly, The eagerness for... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently...between a gratification, when new, and when familiar ; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. 3dly, The eagerness for high... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1819 - 252 pages
...It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed, by being frequently...between a gratification, when new, and when familiar; or any pleasure, which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. 3dly. The eagerness for high... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently...between a gratification when new, and when familiar ; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. . . ••• •:••,•... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...It is a properly of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs by which we perceive pleasure are blunted and benumbed, by being frequently...between a gratification when new and when familiar, and any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual. 3. The eagerness for high... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently...any one who has not found the difference between a gratiiication, when new, and when familiar; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it... | |
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These pleasures, by repetition, lose their relish. It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. 
