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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"Chrysal; or the Adventures of a Guinea"
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"Government"
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Date: 1760
"[W]hen the mighty spirit of a large mass of gold takes possession of the human heart, it influences all its actions, and overpowers, or banishes, the weaker impulse of those immaterial, unessential notions called virtues"
preview | full record— Johnstone, Charles (c.1719-c.1800)