pleasant food the sweetness of which they are sensible of, or have an idea of, though they as yet receive no benefit of it, and don’t know that ever they shall: yet they love it because they conceive of it as in itself tending to their pleasure, if there were opportunity and due application; so they conceive of those mentioned virtues as in like manner, in their own nature, tending to their good. Self-love makes them love the quality in general in one case, as in the other. A natural [man] may love
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