Date: 1782
"It is, my dear M----, the same with the rest of our passions;--we have Reason given us for our rudder--Religion is our sheet anchor--our fixed star Hope--Conscience our faithful monitor--and Happiness the grand reward;--we all in this manner can preach up trite maxims."
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
Date: 1789
"Then he assured me, that one sin unatoned for was as sufficient to damn a soul as one leak was to sink a ship."
preview | full record— Equiano, Olaudah [Gustavus Vasa] (c. 1745-1797)