Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"We are not to be astonished, says Confucius, 'that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue, than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way.'"
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"We should find her, if any sensible defect appeared in the mind, more careful in rectifying it, than plaistering up the irreparable decays of the person; nay, I am even apt to fancy, that ladies would find more real pleasure in this utensil in private, than in any other bauble imported from Chin...
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"The first person who came up in order to view her intellectual face was a commoner's wife, who, as I afterwards found, being bred during her virginity in a pawn-broker's shop, now attempted to make up the defects of breeding and sentiment by the magnificence of her dress, and the expensiveness o...
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Mr. Showman, cried she, approaching, I am told you has something to shew in that there sort of magic lanthorn, by which folks can see themselves on the inside; I protest, as my lord Beetle says, I am sure it will be vastly pretty, for I have never seen any thing like it before. But how; are we t...
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Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"
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Date: 1762
"I cannot reach that heavenly shore, / The gusts of passion rise / So fierce, so high the billows roll, / And on this long afflicted soul / So huge a tempest lies"
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Date: 1762
"Yet with the mind of Jesus steel'd / He cannot to entreaties yield"
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Date: 1762
"The true heavenly David give, / The just and loving One, / After Thine own heart, to live, / And fix in us His throne."
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Date: 1762
"Come, and 'stablish in my heart / Thine everlasting throne."
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Date: 1762
God may "Fix in every heart of man / [His] everlasting throne"
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