Date: 1796
"So lately a captive, oppressed with chains, perishing with hunger, suffering every inconvenience of cold and want, hidden from the light, excluded from society, hopeless, neglected, and, as I feared, forgotten: now restored to life and liberty, enjoying all the comforts of affluence and ease, su...
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Date: 1796
"The damning contract weighed heavy upon his mind; and the scenes in which he had been a principal actor, had left behind them such impressions as rendered his heart the seat of anarchy and confusion."
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Date: 1799
"My heart began now, for the first time, to droop"
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Date: 1799
"Surely some insanity has fastened on my understanding"
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Date: 1799
Dreams haunt "undisciplined and unenlightened" imaginations
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Date: 1799
"It seemed as if I were walking in the dark and might rush into snares or drop into pits before I was aware of my danger"
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Date: 1799
"I cannot well account for the revolution in my mind."
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Date: 1799
"A mind thus susceptible of new impressions must be, I conceived, of a wonderful texture."
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Date: 1799
"In stepping to the instrument some motion or appearance awakened a thought in my mind, which affected my feelings like the shock of an earthquake"
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Date: 1799
"The images that haunted me at home and abroad, in her absence and her presence, gradually coalesced into one shape, and gave birth to an incessant train of latent palpitations and indefinable hopes"
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