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Date: 1777
"My father did not then perceive this; it was not till he waited on Montauban, that the force of it struck his mind."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"If they say, that affection is a mere involuntary impulse, neither waiting the decisions of reason, or the dissuasive of prudence, do they not in reality degrade us to machines, which are blindly actuated by some uncontrollable power?"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1782
"I wonder what companions she has met with--there is a magnetism in good-nature which will ever attract its like--so if she meets with beings the least social--but that's as chance wills!"
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
