Date: 1751
"Surely, says I, this ought to be engraven on Brass, as I wish it was on my Heart"
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Date: 1751
"I am here, thought I, like a poor condemned Criminal, who knows his Execution is fixed for such a Day, nay such an Hour, and dies over and over in Imagination, and by the Torture of his Mind, till that Hour comes"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)
Date: 1751
"This Speech, I own, gave me the first Reflection I ever had in my Life, and lock'd up all my Faculties for a long Time; nor was I able, for the Variety of Ideas that crowded my Brain, to make a Word of Answer, but stood like an Image of Stone"
preview | full record— Paltock, Robert (1697-1767)