passion as another person. When we have dined, we order the covers to be re|moved; and we should treat in the same manner the objects of the most ardent and passionate desires, if they were the objects of no other passions but those which take their origin from the body.
In the command of those appetites of the body consists that virtue which is pro|perly called temperance. To restrain them within those bounds, which regard to health and fortune prescribes, is the part of prudence. But to confine them with|in those limits, which grace, which pro|priety, which delicacy, and modesty, re|quire, is the office of temperance.
2. It is for the same reason that to cry out with bodily pain, how intolerable so|ever, appears always unmanly and un|becoming. There is, however, a good deal of sympathy even with bodily pain. If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm; and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer. My
