Date: 1790?
"Be careful, greatly careful, my dear child, that familiarity with the sight, does not make you grow indifferent to the consequences of such actions, and so tempt you to partake of the guilt: but let the advice contained in the following sheets sink deep into your mind, and be a shield to defend ...
preview | full record— Kilner, Dorothy (1755-1836)
Date: 1790, 1794
He was allowed to do so, and read it till every word was imprinted on his memory; and after enjoying the sad luxury of holding it that night on his bosom, was forced the next morning to relinquish his treasure."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)
Date: 1792
"This habitual slavery, to first impressions, has a more baneful effect on the female than the male character, because business and other dry employments of the understanding, tend to deaden the feelings and break associations that do violence to reason."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1793
"Yet such is the construction of the human mind, that fear must be strongly imprest not to wear off by time."
preview | full record— Anonymous [By an American Lady]
Date: 1796
"He saw how profound was the impression made upon her mind, not merely of her personal evils, but of what she conceived to be the misconduct of her friends."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"The impression, however, left upon the mind of our poor Mother, I should try vainly to disguise, since it has given her a shock that has forced from me the opening of this letter."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)