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Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
One may endeavor "to stifle and suppress [...] foolish Fancies, as Rebels to [her] Reason, and Enemies to [her] Repose"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
"I placed him in the Tribunal of my Judgment, as the Author of my Father's Death, which render'd him unfit ever to be my Husband"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
When "Interest and Inclination stand Candidates for Preference, we then trick with Virtue, and put the Cheat upon Honour; we impose upon our Understandings, and force our Judgments; nay more, we depose even Reason itself, and give Passions the Regency; and when our Minds are thus untun'd, our Act...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
Our Minds may be "untun'd," so that "our Actions soon joyn in the same Discord; post-pone the Laws of the Gods, and make those of our Country ineffectual"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
"Valerius now became an Example; for he was not wicked in his Nature, but misled by the Ignis-fatuus of his Passion and Interest."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
A contrivance may raze "out all those Characters of Friendship and fraternal Love, which [...] virtuous and generous Behaviour" may engrave in the Heart
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
We "suffer our selves to be blown and toss'd by our Passions, without casting Anchor on the Coast of sound Judgment, or steering to the Harbour of right Reason"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
"I was in this Labyrinth of Thoughts when one brought me a Letter from Exiilus"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
"I will not repeat to you, Madam, the divers Conflicts of my Thoughts and the Agitation of my Mind on this Occasion; for my Interior labour'd as it were under a Fever and Ague, burning with an irresistible Inclination for Marcellus"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1712, 1715, 1719
"[W]hen once Passion blinds us, Passion misguides us, Passion overthrows us, Passion destroys us, and no Passion so strong and so deceitful as that of Love; Love rocks our Reason into a Lethargy, and then does what it pleases with the rest of our Interior"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
