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Date: January 1, 1760 - January 1, 1762; 1762
A sacred idea may be throned within the heart and "cherished with such fervency of regard, with such reverence of affection, as the devout anchorite more unreasonably pays to those sainted reliques that constitute the object of his adoration"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1771
"[T]he passions of men are temporary madhouses; and sometimes very fatal in their effects"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)