Date: 1794
"When we are suddenly awaked by any violent stimulus, the surprise totally disunites the trains of our sleeping ideas from these of our waking ones; but if we gradually awake, this does not happen; and we readily unravel the preceding trains of imagination."
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Date: 1798
"A woman, with sentiments as pure, as refined, and as delicate, as ever inhabited a human heart!"
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