Date: January 3, 1750-51, 1807
"He may confine their bodies; but the free soul will be out of his power, which only love and gratitude can bind."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"[Y]et so much more is the understanding blinded, when once the fancy is captivated, that it seems a desperate undertaking to convince a girl in love that she has mistaken the character of the man she prefers."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1773
"The resentment which, instead of being expressed, is nursed in secret, and continually aggravated by the imagination, will, in time, become the ruling passion; and then, how horrible must be his case, whose kind and pleasurable affections are all swallowed up by the tormenting as well as detesta...
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: w. 1774-6, 1921
"As to the brutes it [whipping] inflicts no wound on their mind, whose Natures seem made to bear it, and whose sufferings are not attended with shame or pain beyond the present moment."
preview | full record— Schaw, Janet (c. 1731-c. 1801)