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"Sir," I said to him, "it would be pushing my devotion to eclectic philosophy too far to insert your ideas in my book; they would destroy it. Everything in it is based on love, platonic and sensual. God forbid that I should end my book by such social blasphemies!
The Euthumist is one who assumes moral pleasure as a sufficient reason why virtue should be sought; the Eudaimonist believes we should be virtuous for the sake of affectional, intellectual, and sensual pleasure; if he means the pleasure of all mankind, he is a Public Eudaimonist; but if he means the pleasure of the individual, he is a Private Eudaimonist.
Here is one snatch of talk, for the accuracy of which I can vouch- 'Ye had a spree here last Tuesday? 'We had that! 'I wasna able to be oot o' my bed. Man, I was awful bad on Wednesday. 'Ay, ye were gey bad. And you should have seen the bright eyes, and heard the sensual accents! They recalled their doings with devout gusto and a sort of rational pride.
The reader can readily infer, however, from his daily experiences with the human family, that this construction is seldom put upon this canon, the world at large, viewing it from the Epicurean interpretation, which meant earthly pleasures, or the purely sensual enjoyments.
To think of him despoiling that glorious young soul maddens me. I am the son of a coarse, powerful, sensual, drunken father; but he neglected to endow me with his brutal health. My mother was an invalid; therefore, here am I, old and worn out at forty that's why I worship youth and beauty. Health is the only heaven I know, and that is denied me."
It was in feelings of kindness and good will toward friends of his own sex that originated that spirit of favoritism, so unworthy of a monarch, which he so often evinced; and even his irregular and unhallowed attachments of another kind seem to have been not wholly selfish and sensual.
Every now and then phrases stood out fiercely sincere about the low wages of women, their exclusion from the skilled trades, the marriage laws, the exploiting and "selling" of women, and the like. And always, in the background of the girl's picture, the hungry and sensual appetites of men, lying in wait for the economic and physical weakness of the woman. He waited until she had finished.
Again, such complaints coming from young men are very often specious, and are mere subterfuges overdrawn pictures of their sufferings which are presented as an excuse for indulging the sensual emotions, instead of manfully and righteously struggling to overcome them. "The sin, of all, most sure to blight The sin, of all, that the soul's light Is soonest lost, extinguished in."
Though the neck and bosom are exposed, yet there is an angelic seriousness and gravity in the conception of the piece which would check an earthly thought. The woman is of that high class about whom there might seem to be a hovering angelic presence the perfection of beauty and symmetry, without a tinge of sensual attraction.
Thus, by degrees, this barbarous people began to assume the luxurious manners of their conquerors, and even to outdo them in all the refinements of sensual pleasure. 20. Upon account of the successes in Britain, Titus was saluted Impera'tor for the fifteenth time; but he did not long survive this honour, being seized with a violent fever at a little distance from Rome.
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