Date: 1776
"But I have other visions still more dreadful--spectres, indeed, that have long stampt indelible impressions on my heart and mind."
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Date: 1776
"She has not yet recovered the vivacity she possessed before her attachment to Captain Williams; but time, they say, can conquer every thing, and will, I trust, erase the memory of that disagreeable event from her mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I know not why, but my spirits are uncommonly low at present, there is no nostrum for a mind diseased, and therefore your kind wish for your suffering friends is vain."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Long has the idea wandered through my mind--Long have I languished for that peaceful haven, in which this tempest-beaten bark can only anchor."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Too much a slave to all the fond affections of the heart, love for my brother tempted me to hope that his society might sooth my griefs, and lull my cares to rest."
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Date: 1776
"A thousand wild vagaries now rushed into my troubled brain."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"I needed not to read it, the words were but too deeply engraved upon my heart."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"Can you, my once dear friend, without abhorrence, think of her who robbed you of a brother, and was the unhappy cause his pure and spotless soul was stained with blood?"
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Date: 1777
"My father was far from being so once; but misfortune has now given his mind a tincture of sadness."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"Though I meant a description, I have scrawled through most of my paper without beginning one. I have made but some slight sketches of his mind; of his person I have said nothing, which, from a woman to a woman, should have been mentioned the soonest."
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