Date: 1762
"Your constant endeavours have been to inculcate the best principles into youthful minds, the only probable means of mending mankind; for the foundation of most of our virtues, or our vices, are laid in that season of life when we are most susceptible of impression, and when our minds, as on a sh...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1762
"He reverenced and respected her like a divinity, but hoped that prudence might enable him to conquer his passion, at the same time that it had not force enough to determine him to fly her presence, the only possible means of lessening the impression which every hour engraved more deeply on his h...
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Date: 1763
"I recollect those dear moments of confidence and friendship engraved for ever on my heart."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"The graces of that form are lost, those lips have ceased to utter the generous sentiments of the noblest heart which ever beat; but never will his varied perfections be blotted from the mind of his father."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1763
"What a day have I passed! may the idea of it be ever blotted from my mind!"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1769
"What gratitude do we not owe to heaven! may the sense of it be for ever engraven on our hearts!"
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1770
"Mr. Falkland began with beseeching lord V--- to blot from his memory his past ill conduct, for which he expressed the sincerest contrition"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1776
"We all help to engrave our misfortunes on our hearts, by bearing them constantly in mind, and recurring back to them daily, as if we were incapable of turning our thoughts to any other subject."
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Date: 1776
"No words will ever be able to express my feelings, nor no time to erase them from my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"She has not yet recovered the vivacity she possessed before her attachment to Captain Williams; but time, they say, can conquer every thing, and will, I trust, erase the memory of that disagreeable event from her mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)