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Page 133
... disagreeable object a painful emotion . Thus the paffion of gratitude , being to a fpectator an agreeable object , produceth in him the pleasant paffion of love to the grate- ful perfon . Thus malice , being to a spec- tator a disagreeable ...
... disagreeable object a painful emotion . Thus the paffion of gratitude , being to a fpectator an agreeable object , produceth in him the pleasant paffion of love to the grate- ful perfon . Thus malice , being to a spec- tator a disagreeable ...
Page 134
... disagreeable , though it continues to be still pleasant . Our appetites are pre- cisely in the fame condition . Again , vanity , though pleasant , is disagreeable . Refent- ment , on the other hand , is , in every stage of the paffion ...
... disagreeable , though it continues to be still pleasant . Our appetites are pre- cisely in the fame condition . Again , vanity , though pleasant , is disagreeable . Refent- ment , on the other hand , is , in every stage of the paffion ...
Page 309
... disagreeable . But we learn from experience , that this would be a rash con- clufion . Reft is one of those circumstances that are neither agreeable nor disagreeable . It is viewed with perfect indifferency . And happy it is for mankind ...
... disagreeable . But we learn from experience , that this would be a rash con- clufion . Reft is one of those circumstances that are neither agreeable nor disagreeable . It is viewed with perfect indifferency . And happy it is for mankind ...
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