Date: 1773
"May you be enabled, by reading them frequently, to transfuse into your own breast that holy flame which inspired the writer!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1796
"Cold as ice themselves, they never could kindle in our breasts a spark of that zeal, which is necessary to a conflict with an adverse zeal; much less were they made to infuse into our minds that stubborn persevering spirit, which alone is capable of bearing up against those vicissitudes of fortu...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)