Date: 1773

"But there was a judge in the bosom of Annesly, whom it was more difficult to satisfy; nor could he for a long time be brought to pardon himself that blow, for which the justice of his country had acquitted him."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

One may blot from his mind "the idea of future retribution"

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"The passions which thou didst implant in me, that reason which should balance them, is unable to withstand"

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"Besides these, there were certain evenings appropriated to exercises of the mind."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

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...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

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."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"Nor was her mind ill suited to this 'Index of the soul.'"

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"A train of soft reflexions at length banished this rugged guest from his heart."

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

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...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)

Date: 1773

"It was chiefly in this manner of instilling sentiments, (as in the case of the charitable establishment I have mentioned) by leading insensibly to the practice of virtue, rather than by downright precept, that Annesly proceeded with his children; for it was his maxim, that the heart must feel, a...

— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)