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§ 3. 

 Of the Pleasures and Pains of the sense of Smelling. 



49. THE pleasures we receive through this sense. ar^j, of 

 all others, the rnost transient, for after a few^niinutes we either 

 become insensible to them, or are satiated. Some scents are 

 reviving, but not exactly pleasurable. 



50. But the painful sensations communicated through the 

 medium of this sense are far more numerous than the plea- 

 sm-es it imparts, and much more intense; for some are so 

 powerful as to occasion instant death. 



51. To some of the more moderate, many are reconciled 

 by being long habituated to their endurance. 



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