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\ This f mlleriou6 kind of pleafure, which is often id in the excrcifc of paifions generally counted iful, has been taken notice of by feveral au -
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I defcended a little on the fide of that delicious Talley, furveying it with a fecret kind of pleafure
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Of York ... 1790
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This kind of pleafure ori - zed man, he never flanders his cOm - ginates from a fenfe of human mifery, panions.
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The very pleafure which is here 'pleaded as a fufficient re - ward for the afFeftion of the father, is to the laft degree an aggravation of ingratitude in the fon, and inftead of palliating the breach of his filial afFeftion, leaves him without a ppfTibility of ex - cufe; for furely thofe who take a pleafurQ in the pro - pfiomotion of our happinefs muft be doubly en - titled to our gratitude, and we ought to feel a glow of veneration arifing from a confcioufnefs of their motives, as much as from the a6hial benefits themfelves.
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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The ad - miflion of all private merchants, at their pleafure, and of their Ships, into the trade, would make it as perfedly free as the trade to our American or Weft Indian colo - nies.
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It was not long before we diftinguimed on the fouth fide of Oyfter Bay a great fire, which, as it mud have been kindled by the favages, gave us hopes pf meering with them in that dire£bion; we landed at that point therefore, and our expectations were realized: fourteen natives, feated round this fire, received us with tranfports of fur - prife, admiration, and pleafure.
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When he takes his pleafure by water, he carries fome of his wives along with him.
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Wherin Erafmus toke his pleafure to underftand S. Poule, as though he fliould defcribe, of whate qualitie Priefts wyves fliuld be, Wherin he forgatt himfelfe For S.inft Poul knewe, that if a Bysftiop or Preft were once maried, his Wife mud pafle with dl her faultes; and it fliuld be to late to tel what flie fliould be.
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Yet, that pleafure was not wholly un - mixt with mortification at perceiving the early dawn of genius obfcured by fome marks of an overbearing and intolerant fpirit*
memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke charles m'cormick 1798
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They offered, if their lives might be fpared, that they would become the fervants of the Englifh and be difpofed of at their pleafure.
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