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... pleasure ? Yet the faculty of speech often produces the very reverse of these , mutual annoyance and offence . Our joints and limbs were formed , without ques- tion , with a design of being instrumental to action and motion ; yet the ...
... pleasure ? Yet the faculty of speech often produces the very reverse of these , mutual annoyance and offence . Our joints and limbs were formed , without ques- tion , with a design of being instrumental to action and motion ; yet the ...
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... pleasures , my enjoyments , and my profits . The two first are not such , as I can pretend to say are reconcileable to purity and holiness ; the last carries me occasionally to things which are not strictly just and THE THOUGHTS OF ...
... pleasures , my enjoyments , and my profits . The two first are not such , as I can pretend to say are reconcileable to purity and holiness ; the last carries me occasionally to things which are not strictly just and THE THOUGHTS OF ...
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... pleasure , and gaiety , and diversion , are sadly unfavorable to the impressions of religion ; they are not incon ... pleasures which riches procure , and lost in them altogether ; and it may , perhaps , be difficult to find a person who ...
... pleasure , and gaiety , and diversion , are sadly unfavorable to the impressions of religion ; they are not incon ... pleasures which riches procure , and lost in them altogether ; and it may , perhaps , be difficult to find a person who ...
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... pleasures and en- joyments ; it is possible also in the eagerness and hurry of busi- ness , not to think of those things at all . But when pleasures fail , when pain and misery come in their place , when employ- ment fails , when we can ...
... pleasures and en- joyments ; it is possible also in the eagerness and hurry of busi- ness , not to think of those things at all . But when pleasures fail , when pain and misery come in their place , when employ- ment fails , when we can ...
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... pleasure or gratification in view ; if there was any thing to be got by the action ; that was all he considered about it ; its being right and its being wrong formed no part of his deliberation , nor was he put upon asking this question ...
... pleasure or gratification in view ; if there was any thing to be got by the action ; that was all he considered about it ; its being right and its being wrong formed no part of his deliberation , nor was he put upon asking this question ...
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