Date: 1769
"The narrowness of my fortune, which I see in a much stronger light in this land of luxury, and the apparent impossibility of placing the most charming of women in the station my heart wishes, give me anxieties which my reason cannot conquer."
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Date: 1769
"Do not be alarmed for me; reason and the impossibility of success will conquer my passion for this angelic woman"
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Date: 1769
"That this preference had, however, been salutary, though painful; since it had determined her to conquer a passion, which could only make her life wretched if it continued."
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Date: 1769
"What gratitude do we not owe to heaven! may the sense of it be for ever engraven on our hearts!"
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Date: 1769
"My voyage ought undoubtedly to be considered as an abdication: I am to all intents and purposes dead in law as a lover; and the lady has a right to consider her heart as vacant, and to proceed to a new election."
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Date: 1769
Savages may regard "the Christian system of marriage as contrary to the laws of nature and reason"
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Date: 1769
"If my ideas of things are right, the human mind is naturally virtuous; the business of education is therefore less to give us good impressions, which we have from nature, than to guard us against bad ones, which are generally acquired."
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Date: 1769
"To the arts of the libertine, however fair, my heart had always been steeled."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"The first moment I saw Colonel Rivers convinced me my heart had till then been a stranger to true tenderness"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"Deprived by their extreme ignorance, and that indolence which nothing but their ardor for war can surmount, of all the conveniencies, as well as elegant refinements of polished life; strangers to the softer passions, love being with them on the same footing as amongst their fellow-tenants of the...
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