The Theory of Agreeable Sensations

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J. J. Tourneisen, 1794 - 165 pages
 

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Page 18 - The fenfes of other animals, being more quick than ours, are fufticient to direel them to follow what is agreeable to their nature, or to fhun whatever is contrary thereto. But we are endowed with reafon in order to fupply the deficiency of our fenfes ; and...
Page v - Now it is to this happy medium, I mean to a moderate exercife of our faculties that the author of our nature has fo wifely annexed pleafure.
Page 20 - ... with the care of his own private affairs , or of the public weal ? But the object of all this profound meditation is the pleafure o£ exercifing the mind, by the movement of a piece of ivory.
Page v - ... inevitably fink into a deplorable ftate of infenfibility and languor. On the other hand , as we are weak and limited creatures , all...
Page 9 - This we iliould be incapable of doing were we not endowed with agreeable as well as painful fenfations. Thefe ferve to direft our choice.
Page 144 - They are continually employed in the exercife of benevolence; this was their delight here on earth, and even then began to yield them a recompence for their virtue.

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