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[11] Pleasure is so instantaneous a sensation, that it cannot be

conceived divisible or incomplete; the longest continued Pleasure

is only a succession of single sparks, so rapid as to give the

appearance of a stream, of light.

[12] A man is as effectually hindered from taking a walk by the

[Greek: allotria haedouae] of reading a novel, as by the [Greek:

oikeia lupae] of gout in the feet.

[13] I have thus rendered [Greek: spoudae (ouk agnoon to

hamartanomenon)]; but, though the English term does not represent

the depth of the Greek one, it is some approximation to the truth

to connect an earnest serious purpose with Happiness.

[14] Bishop Butler, contra (Sermon XV.).