Date: 1765
"Thro' rooted vice my spirits fail, / Which o'er my heart an empire wins, / O let thy mercy countervail / To cover all our sins."
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Date: 1765
"Be ye not like to horse or mule, / That are not bless'd with reason's rule."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1765
"And in this I am warranted by the example of ancient Rome; where, as Cicero informs us, the very boys were obliged to learn the twelve tables by heart, as a carmen necessarium or indispensable lesson, to imprint on their tender minds an early knowledge of the laws and constitution of their count...
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Date: 1766
Dimples may make an absolute conquest of some man's heart
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
A father may think it his duty to conquer faults in his child "which, when strengthened by time and habit, must prove incorrigible"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
One "might find it necessary to his ease, to conquer passions which he durst not indulge"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"[I]t was a truth her reason could more easily perceive, than her heart feel, for it was steeled by habit"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
One may suffer in the interior of his or her heart by the decease of another
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"[A] little cunning is sufficient to enable us to take advantage of the discovery; for cunning attains its little ends more surely than wisdom; like the despicable mole which works its way through the greatest mountains, while the noble lion cannot penetrate one foot deep into the earth"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"If society be formed, by the communication of ideas and sentiments, speech, is, undoubtedly, its most essential and most graceful band, being, at once, the pencil of the mind, the image of its operations, and, the interpreter of the heart."
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)