Date: 1777
"I retire to the family of my own thoughts, and find them in weeds of sorrow."
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Date: 1777
"There is a certain kind of trifling, in which a mind not much at ease can sometimes indulge itself. One feels an escape, as it were, from the heart, and is fain to take up with lighter company. It is like the theft of a truant boy, who goes to play for a few minutes while his master is asleep, a...
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)