Book,  Chapter

 1    Ded      |         even to others when I am absent, that it is not vanity in
 2     II,  XX |     delight which any present or absent thing is apt to produce
 3     II,  XX |        which anything present or absent is apt to produce in us,
 4     II,  XXI|        the mind for want of some absent good. All pain of the body,
 5     II,  XXI|     uneasiness in the want of an absent good, in reference to any
 6     II,  XXI|          pain felt, ease is that absent good; and till that ease
 7     II,  XXI|        pain, there is another of absent positive good; and here
 8     II,  XXI|         As much as we desire any absent good, so much are we in
 9     II,  XXI|        pain for it. But here all absent good does not, according
10     II,  XXI|        of pain is. And therefore absent good may be looked on and
11     II,  XXI|       Good and evil, present and absent, it is true, work upon the
12     II,  XXI|         of desire, fixed on some absent good: either negative, as
13     II,  XXI|          of things, that what is absent should operate where it
14     II,  XXI|         not. It may be said that absent good may, by contemplation,
15     II,  XXI|        which is the state of all absent good, and that which, in
16     II,  XXI| considered as possible. For, all absent good, by which alone, barely
17     II,  XXI|          present misery. but all absent good does not at any time
18     II,  XXI|        the attraction of remoter absent good. We are seldom at ease,
19     II,  XXI|      done in order to happiness,—absent good, though thought on,
20     II,  XXI|        arise from our desires of absent good; which desires always
21     II,  XXI|        the relish we have of any absent good; in both which we are
22     II,  XXI|        and carry the mind out to absent good, according to the necessity
23     II,  XXI|        that, we are not moved by absent good. For, in this narrow
24     II,  XXI|       the desire of the greatest absent good. For, whilst such thoughts
25     II,  XXI|      wrong judgment, whereby the absent are not only lessened, but
26     II,  XXI|     leaves any thought of things absent: or if among our pleasures
27     II,  XXI|         are apt to think nothing absent can equal; because, under
28     II,  XXI|           into its embraces.~67. Absent good unable to counterbalance
29     II,  XXI|    uneasiness. Add to this, that absent good, or, which is the same
30     II,  XXI|    compared together, and so the absent considered as future.~68.
31    III,  VI |    thereby to signify them, when absent, to others, whether they
32    III,  VI |       that particular when it is absent. Besides, the greatest part
33    III,  VI |       has of it, even when it is absent, he puts in no simple idea
34     IV,  VII|       mind, is there, and is not absent; that the consideration