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Date: 1775
"Momus well wished a window in every man's breast. Physiognomists pretend they can take a peep through the features of the face; but this is too abstruse a science to answer the general purposes of life; besides that education may render such knowledge doubtful, as in the case of Socrates."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1775
"There is a contagion in minds and manners, as well as in bodies, when corrupt."
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Date: 1775
"But, as I have said before, I do not think that ethic philosophy can ever be a gainer, by overstraining the sinews of the human mind."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
