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... pleasure . Enquire if it be practicable to send a small present of a cask of porter to Dunvegan , Rasay , and Col. I would not wish to be thought forget- ful of civilities . I am , Sir , your humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON March 5 ...
... pleasure . Enquire if it be practicable to send a small present of a cask of porter to Dunvegan , Rasay , and Col. I would not wish to be thought forget- ful of civilities . I am , Sir , your humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON March 5 ...
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... pleasure . He takes the narrowest system of mo- rality , monastick morality , which holds pleasure itself to be a vice , such as eating salt with our fish , because it makes it eat better ; and he reckons wealth as a publick benefit ...
... pleasure . He takes the narrowest system of mo- rality , monastick morality , which holds pleasure itself to be a vice , such as eating salt with our fish , because it makes it eat better ; and he reckons wealth as a publick benefit ...
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... pleasure very tame ? " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , harmless pleasure is the highest praise . Pleasure is a word of dubious import ; pleasure is in general dangerous , and pernicious to virtue ; to be able therefore to fur- nish pleasure ...
... pleasure very tame ? " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , harmless pleasure is the highest praise . Pleasure is a word of dubious import ; pleasure is in general dangerous , and pernicious to virtue ; to be able therefore to fur- nish pleasure ...
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