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But I recollect a couplet quite apposite to my subject in Virtue an Ethick Epistle, a beautiful and instructive poem, by an anonymous writer, in 1758; who, treating of pleasure in excess, says: 'Till languor, suffering on the rack of bliss, Confess that man was never made for this. BOSWELL. See post, June 12, 1784. See ante, p. 86.
He may be benefitted, he may be injured, he may obtain redress; in a word, he has all the claims and rights of humanity, which Tully, Puffendorf, or the best ethick writers allow to arise out of that state and relation.
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