Date: 1752
"But so totally had the Affair of Miss Mathews possessed his Mind, that like a Man in a most raging Fit of the Gout, he was scarce capable of any additional Torture."
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Date: 1752
"And when this Conceit once had Birth in his Mind, several Circumstances nourished and improved it."
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Date: 1752
"'For Heaven's sake,' cries Amelia, 'do not delay my Request any longer? What you say now greatly increases my Curiosity; and my Mind will be on the Rack till you discover your whole Meaning: for I am more and more convinced, that something of the utmost Importance was the Purport of your Messag...
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Date: 1752
"The first is, that a Mind once violently hurt grows, as it were, callous to any future Impressions of Grief; and is never capable of feeling the same Pangs a second Time."
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Date: 1752
The passions feed on the mind's delicacies
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Date: 1752
The mind may be diseased with a kind of ague fit
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Date: 1752
The mind bears a mental burthen as the body bears a physical one
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Date: 1752
"You know, my Dear, how gloomy the Prospect was Yesterday before our Eyes, how inevitable Ruin stared me in the Face; and the dreadful Idea of having entailed Beggary on my Amelia and her Posterity racked my Mind."
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Date: 1752
"By the latter I shall see whether you can keep a Secret; and if it is no otherwise material, it will be a wholesome Exercise to your Mind; for the Practice of any Virtue is a kind of mental Exercise, and serves to maintain the Health and Vigour of the Soul."
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Date: 1754
Authors may "awaken the judgment to exert itself, so as to reject all the alluring bribes which the passions, assisted by the imagination, can offer"
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