Date: 1751
"In fevers, the sudden failing of the strength and pulse ought, we are told, to be regarded by us as signs of the despairing soul's discontinuing her care of the body, and being soon about to relinquish it: nay, sometimes, like a mean and silly coward, she sinks even under such diseases, as, in t...
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Date: 1751
One may make a plan to make a conquest of a heart, which is "not very susceptible of tender impressions; but, on the contrary, fortified with insensibility and prejudice against the charms of the whole sex"
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Date: 1751
"[H]e could not help gazing at her with desire, and forming the design of making a conquest of her heart"
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Date: 1751
One may behave with such generosity as to make" an absolute conquest" of a woman's heart
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Date: 1751
One may act as if he had "gained an absolute conquest over all the passions of the heart"
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Date: 1751
One may look upon his love for a woman "as a passion which it was necessary, at any rate, to conquer or suppress"
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Date: 1753
He had before this time, been smit with the ambition of making a conquest of the young lady's heart
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Date: 1753
A man may cunningly cater for the gratification of a woman's ruling appetite and gain upon her heart making with rapidity conquest over the affections
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Date: 1753
Extraordinary accomplishments may make a conquest of a woman's heart
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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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