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"Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1773
"By accustoming yourself thus to conquer and disappoint your anger, you will, by degrees, find it grow weak and manageable, so as to leave your reason at liberty."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"Another method of conquering this enemy [the passions], is to abstract our minds from that attention to trifling circumstances, which usually creates this uneasiness."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)