Date: 1773
"Zounds! Sir, can you give any relief to a soul that is haunted by Furies?"
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Date: 1773
One's judgment may appear to be "sometimes almost eclipsed by the brilliancy of her imagination"
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Date: 1773
"I blot from my memory every other woman; those every-day beauties (as Terence calls them) who have nothing but their sex to recommend them."
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Date: 1773
Suicide might be allowable if a man "were under no obligations to any law, either of Nature, or Reason, or Society: not to mention the Revealed Will of God, by which all murder is forbidden."
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Date: 1773
"But reasoning with a man under the influence of any passion is like endeavouring to stop a wild horse, who becomes more violent from being pursued."
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Date: 1773
"The remembrance of my infant days, like the fancied vibration of pleasant sounds in the ear, was still alive in my mind; and I flew to find out the marks by which even inanimate things were to be known, as the friends of my youth, not forgotten, though long unseen, nor lessened, in my estimation...
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Date: 1773
"Unfortunately the young man had acquired a certain train of ideas which were totally averse to that line of life his father had marked out for him."
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Date: 1773
"Nor was her mind ill suited to this 'Index of the soul.'"
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Date: 1773
"A train of soft reflexions at length banished this rugged guest from his heart."
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Date: 1773
"It is not enough, said Annesly, to put weapons into those hands which never have been taught the use of them; the reading we recommend to youth will store their minds with intelligence, if they attend to it properly; but to go a little farther, we must accustom them to apply it, we must teach th...
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