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"Prose Fiction"
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"Female"
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"The Story of Lady Juliana Harley: A Novel"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1776
"Not that I wou'd encourage the modern philosophy, which reduces all virtue to self-interest; for if I may hazard an unborrowed simile, the liberal mind may be compared to the Nile, which enriches the soil, from its own abundance, without requiring any return."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)