in all Circumfiazzces illu/lrated. 267 hot know, or cannot compare in his own S E R a. refleéting thoughts, the difference between XI. the gratifications and uneafineffes of the ex- `'v°'' ternal fenfes, and of the mind ? But it is too little attended to, and yet very certain, that the latter are of vaftly greater importance to our intereft than the former. Scarcely is there any man not confcious, in fome mea- fure, of the fatisfaäion which arifes from morally good difpofitions, at leaft fome par- ticular kinds of them, fuch as focial and natural affeäion, benevolence, compaßion, or gratitude; and that this is ftronger and more intenfe than the enjoyments which any fenfible objeft can yield, appears from this confideration, that the latter are frequently facrificed to the other ; nay, the molt grievous bodily tortures are fubmitted to by men of very imperfe& moral charaaers, rather than they will foregoe the pleafures of their fuppofed virtue. Befides, it might be eafily (hewn, that net only the enjoy- ments of fenfe are mixed with force ho- nourable appearance of virtue, which thews the neceffity the human mind is under of paying refpea to that divine form, but that really fenfual pleafure is heightened to the poffeffor, by that fpecies of morality, which attends
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