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Thus a man deprived
object , takes up with what moil
deprived of tabacco, any bitter
rather than want: a habit of punch,
good resource: accustomed to the
the man.
CUSTOM AND HABIT. Ch. XIV.
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be easy a moment: without amusement; a variety
in tiie objects prevents a habit as to any one in
particular ; but as the train is unisorm with respedt
to amusement, the habit is formed accordingly;
and that sort of habit may be denominated a gene-
ric habit, in opposition to the former . which is a
fpecific habit. A habit of a town-life , of country-
sports, os solitude, of reading, or of busmess ,
where sufficiently varied , are instances of generic
habits. Every specific habit hath a mixture of the
generic ; sor the habit os any one sort of food ,
makes the taste agreeable , and we are fond of that
taste, wherever sound.
of a habitual
resembles it;
herb will do,
makes wine a
sweet society and comforts of matrimony
unhappily deprived of his beloved objedi, inclines
the sooner to a second. In general, when we are
deprived of a habitual object, we are sond of its
qualities in any other object.
The reasons are assigned above , why the causes
of intense pleasure become not readily habitual:
but now we diseover, that these reasons conclude
only against specific habits. In the case of a weak
pleasure , a habit is sormed by frequency and uni-
formity of reiteration , which, in the case of an
intense pleasure, produceth satiety and disgust.
But it is remarkable, that satiety and disgust have
H
- ,
Thus a man deprived
object , takes up with what moil
deprived of tabacco, any bitter
rather than want: a habit of punch,
good resource: accustomed to the
the man.
CUSTOM AND HABIT. Ch. XIV.
>-
' ‘i
■1
31
FB
be easy a moment: without amusement; a variety
in tiie objects prevents a habit as to any one in
particular ; but as the train is unisorm with respedt
to amusement, the habit is formed accordingly;
and that sort of habit may be denominated a gene-
ric habit, in opposition to the former . which is a
fpecific habit. A habit of a town-life , of country-
sports, os solitude, of reading, or of busmess ,
where sufficiently varied , are instances of generic
habits. Every specific habit hath a mixture of the
generic ; sor the habit os any one sort of food ,
makes the taste agreeable , and we are fond of that
taste, wherever sound.
of a habitual
resembles it;
herb will do,
makes wine a
sweet society and comforts of matrimony
unhappily deprived of his beloved objedi, inclines
the sooner to a second. In general, when we are
deprived of a habitual object, we are sond of its
qualities in any other object.
The reasons are assigned above , why the causes
of intense pleasure become not readily habitual:
but now we diseover, that these reasons conclude
only against specific habits. In the case of a weak
pleasure , a habit is sormed by frequency and uni-
formity of reiteration , which, in the case of an
intense pleasure, produceth satiety and disgust.
But it is remarkable, that satiety and disgust have