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He likes and dislikes respectively the causes of them. He desires to reciprocate pleasure and pain received, when intentionally given by other sentient beings. He himself expects such reciprocation from his fellows, coveting it in the one case, and shunning it in the other.

When he came for a sojourn at home it was a pleasure to look at him; he was so comely, and there was no mischief about him; every one liked him, every one congratulated us. Only he was still rather thin of body, and there was no real good rosiness in his face. So then, he was already in his nineteenth year, and his education would soon be finished. When suddenly we receive from him a letter.

For years you have this pleasure, unalloyed by any disenchanting reality. How you watch the tender twigs in spring, and the freshly forming bark, hovering about the healthy growing tree with your pruning-knife many a sunny morning! That is happiness.

All the pipers and the players and panderers to vice, the mountebanks, the sensual men, and the lawless women poured into the presence of the king, who had been too long deprived of the pleasure that his nature craved. Parliament voted seventy thousand pounds for a memorial to Charles's father, but the irresponsible king spent the whole sum on the women who surrounded him.

Folingsby; he was a man whose head was at this time entirely full of gigs, and tandems, and unicorns: business was his aversion; pleasure was his business. Money he considered only as the means of pleasure; and tenants only as machines, who make money. He was neither avaricious nor cruel; but thoughtless and extravagant.

He had never before known what real love was, etc. "Pleasure had fired his maddening soul;" "but the heart, the heart been lonely still." He entreated only a personal interview, even though to be rejected, scorned. Still, when "he who adored her had left but the name," etc. Alas! alas! as Mrs.

It was the ordinary state of things for her father to be unwell, and his illness scarcely weighed upon her spirits, especially on a holiday and day of pleasure like the present; for though she often shared Edmund's walks and rides, a long expedition like this was an unusual treat.

"We have been enjoying ourselves immensely, and no wonder, considering all the glories that have been laid open to us. I have seen much wealth and splendor in India, but not as here. I feel overwhelmed." "There is still much for you to see," Nehal Singh answered with a proud pleasure. Other members of the party had by this time joined them, and Beatrice dropped back to her mother's side.

No doubt she had expected them to freshen; but hardly so soon. A tide of life welled up in her a tide of pleasure.

"Well, I come back to my former question" he said "Suppose the occasion arose, and you did all this, what pleasure to yourself do you foresee?"