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ing tortures, they feel a cool and premeditated delight, and 

 it must be owned, that from the same stern, obdurate and in- 

 flexible frame of nimd, they bear the torments inflicted on 

 them by their enemies with a ferocious, insulting lirmness 

 and patience, which some call fortitude. With the pleasures 

 of si/tnpatht/ they are totally unacquainted, and the pains of 

 others, not even their enemies, are to them mere matter of 

 sport. 



Their females (with only two extraordinary exceptions) they 

 treat not only with inhumanity, but with the most insulting 

 contempt. 



The gratification even of their corporeal wants can scarcely 

 be called pleasurable or comfortable, at least it is so in the 

 least possible degree. Their food is commonly of the most 

 disgusting kind ; and any pleasure it can afford is frequently 

 counterbalanced by the severe abstinence of many days. 

 Their sense of smelling, if not entirely blunted, is assailed 

 by the most faetid odours. Their cloathing harsh and ver- 

 miniferous. Their habitations, at least in the colder regions, 

 are dens of misery, Cleanlinessthey systematically avoid. 



How then is it possible that any should doubt, as some have, 

 whether with regard to external circumstances, happiness and 

 misery is equally diffused through all states of human life ? 

 " In civilized countries, where I'egular policies have secured 

 *' the necessaries of lite, ambition, avarice, and luxury, find 



" the 



