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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Roman Catholic to Deist converts to Anglicanism"
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"Prose Fiction"
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Work title:
"The Post-boy rob'd of his Mail: or, the Pacquet Broke Open"
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Date: 1692
"Our enticing Alurements are despised by Petrified Hearts, and impenetrable to the Impressions of amorous Passion. With Souls of Adamant they correspond with our Lives, encount'ring our Affections with peevish and wayward Scorn."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)