Date: 1796
"His ruling passion was hunting, which he had brought himself to consider as a serious occupation; and, when talking over some remarkable chace, he treated the subject with as much gravity as it had been a battle on which the fate of two kingdoms was depending."
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Date: 1796
"Then banish from your mind the idea of our being ever united."
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Date: 1796
"Pleasure fled, and Shame usurped her seat in his bosom."
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Date: 1796
"He related her adventure; and he added, that since that time his ideas having undergone a thorough revolution, he now felt much compassion for the unfortunate nun."
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Date: 1796
"You are still too much the monk, your mind is enslaved by the prejudices of education; and superstition might make you shudder at the idea of that which experience has taught me to prize and value."
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Date: 1796
"Unfortunately his passions were the very worst judges to whom he could possibly have applied."
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Date: 1796
"In every heart to find a slave, / In every soul to fix his reign, / In bonds to lead the wise and brave, / And make the captives kiss his chain; / Such is the power of Love, and oh! / I grieve so well Love's power to know."
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Date: 1799
"My brain was usurped by some benumbing power, and my limbs refused to support me."
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Date: 1799
"To meet him, after so long a separation, here, and in these circumstances, was so unlooked-for and abrupt and event, and revived a tribe of such hateful impulses and agonizing recollections, that a total revolution seemed to have been reflected in my frame."
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Date: 1800
There may be revolutions in the mind
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