Date: 1753
The conquest of a certain heart may cost a thousand times more labour and address than all previous victories
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Date: 1753
One may "contemplate the catastrophe of such a wicked life, that the moral might be the more deeply engraved on his remembrance"
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Date: 1753
Life may still linger "in some of its interior haunts" so that a doctor may immediately order "such applications to the extremities and surface of the body, as might help to concentrate and reinforce the natural heat"
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Date: 1753
One may have "a most insidious principle of self-love, that grew up with him from the cradle, and left no room in his heart for the least particle of social virtue"
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Date: 1753
"Though he expressed infinite anxiety and chagrin at this misfortune, which could not fail to raise new obstacles to their love, his heart was a stranger to the uneasiness he affected"
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Date: 1753
"The nymph, whose passions nature had filled to the brim, could not hear such a rhapsody unmoved"
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Date: 1753
"[B]ut, notwithstanding the fatigue he had undergone, sleep refused to visit his eye-lids, all his faculties being kept in motion by the ideas that crowded so fast upon his imagination"
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Date: 1753
"This new domestic, whose name was Maurice, underwent, with great applause, the examination of our hero, who perceived in him, a fund of sagacity and presence of mind, by which he was excellently qualified for being the valet of an adventurer; he was therefore accommodated with a second hand suit...
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Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
"He revolved the late adventure of the coach, and the declaration of Mr. Clarke, with equal eagerness and astonishment; and was seized with the most ardent desire of unravelling a mystery so interesting to the predominant passion of his heart."
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Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
"Mingled considerations" may produce a "ferment in the oeconomy" of the mind
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