...die or grow old and decrepid before we can reap the fruit of our labors. Considering what short-lived weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial...expect from you the insipid railleries I should suffer frotn another in answer to this letter. You know how to divide the idea of pleasure from that of vice,...

...Conti in 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu delivers herself thus: — ' Considering what short-lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure ? . . . You know how to divide the idea of pleasure from that of vice, and they are only mingled in...

...never attain." Hawthorne might have weighed her words as she continued: "Considering what short liv'd, weak Animals Men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure? I dare not persue this theme; perhaps I have allready said too much. . . . [But] I had rather be a rich Effendi...

....... We die or grow old before we can reap the fruit of our Labours. Considering what short-lived, weak animals Men are, is there any Study so beneficial as the study of the present Pleasure?" Similarly, while she repeatedly stressed the beauty of Turkish women, constituting...