Date: 1747-8
"[W]hen my mind is made such wax, as to be fit to take what impression she pleases to give it."
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Date: 1747-8
"Because a woman's heart may be at one time adamant, at another wax."
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Date: 1747-8
One's "delicate and even mind" may be see in "the very cut of her letters"
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Date: 1747-8
"Will not some serious thoughts mingle with thy melilot, and tear off the callus of thy mind, as that may stay the leather from thy back, and as thy epispastics may strip the parchment from thy plotting head?"
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Date: 1747-8
"And he apprehends, that, in the study of Human Nature, the knowlege of those apprehensions leads us farther into the recesses of the Human Mind, than the colder and more general reflections suited to a continued and more contracted Narrative."
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Date: 1747-8
In the afterlife "to be worse than worst / Of those that lawless and uncertain thought / Imagines howling" is too horrible
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Date: 1747-8
"Rot me if it be not my full persuasion, that if he had, her heart would have been found to be either iron or marble"
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Date: 1747-8
"I can fancy, that to pink my body like my mind, I need only to be put into a hogshead stuck full of steel-pointed spikes, and rolled down a hill three times as high as the Monument."
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Date: 1747-8
"'This, says he, I will for ever remember against her, in order to steel my own heart, that I may cut thro' a rock of ice to hers"
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Date: 1747-8
"Then will I steel my heart with these remembrances"
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