>Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:20:37 -0700 >X-From_: paward@lexcominc.net Thu Jan 17 09:20:37 2002 > > > >Hi, > >I would like to comment on this subject of pleasure. >I am reading a book my mom got me for Christmas. I had asked her to get >it for me since it is >a history book of Edgecombe County, NCIt is a reprinting of "History Of >Edgecombe >County North Carolina. ( I will give the address where you may get it at >the end of my >comment). > >I was reading last night and on page 15: It said's: > >" Another cause that retarded permanent settlement was probably the >method of living by >the people. Their life was one of satiety. If one would give full >credence to the reports >returned by early explorers, it must be concluded that the men avoided >every task involving >physical labor and inconveniences. Lawson says some of the men were very >laborious and >made improvements in their way, but that this character could not be >applied in general. The >indication of enjoyment and pleasure away from the settled lands of Old >Dominion gave >them no incentive for physical activity. Possibly there was no section >in the colony where a >subsistence suitable to the majority of the settlers could be so easily >procured than in this >fertile county which afterwards became Edgecome." > >I cannot be sure; but maybe pleasure meant that they did what they >wanted to do and nothing >more. I think maybe some were lazy. > > >This is a very good book: > >The cost is appromatly $48.00 to $58;00. I cannot remember exactly how >much. It can be >pruchased at Southern Historical Press, Inc. P.O. Box 1267 375 West >Broad Street >Greenville, SC 29602-1267. It has 486 pages and is indexed. It is a very >good book. > >I had first requested it through interlibrary loan at my Library where I >work. I think >it was sent from ECU at Greenville, NC. A Library there at Greenville, >NC anyhow. >( But I not sure if it was the Cottage Library or not ). It was about a >year ago that >I ordered it through interlibrary loan. I got it as a Christmas gift >from my mother this >pass Christmas. > >So Pleasure could mean they did nothing in way of employment except what >they so desired, >and in their way of thinking it was all pleasure. > >Just my thoughts on this matter. > >Peggy Virginia Crilley