Date: 1767
"He gave the reins to his passions; he again became the slave of voluptuous appetites."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1775
"This is the true nature of the human mind; the greater evil always swallowing up the lesser, as the rod of Moses did the other serpents."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)