144 Dr. Barnes on the Pleafure Jomethnes felt 
trouble to any body. But this is a matter of too 
much confequence and extent* to be explained 
in a curfosy paper. 
On the Pleasure which the Mind in many Cafes 
receives fro'tn contemplating Scenes of 
Distress. By T. Barnes, D. D. Read 
dpril 3 , 1782 . 
Suave mari magno, turbantibus jequora vends, 
E terra alterius magnum fpedtare periclum. 
Non quia vexari quenquam eft jucunda voluptas;- 
Sed quibus ipfe malis careas, quia cernere fuave eft. 
Lucreti us. 
'T'HE pleafure defcribed by the Poet in this 
motto, and of which he has mentioned fo 
linking and appofite an inftance, may perhaps, 
at firftjfeem of fo fmgular and aftonifhing a nature, 
that fome may be difpofed to doubt of its 
exiftence. But that it does exift, in the cafe here 
referred to, and in many others, of a fimilar kind, 
is an undoubted fa< 5 t: and it may not appear an 
ufelefs, or difagreeable entertainment, to trace its 
fource in the human bread, together with the 
final caufe, for which it was implanted there by 
our benevolent Creator. 
“ Shall I, it may be faid, feel complacency in 
beholding a fcene, in which many of my fellow- 
creatures 
