Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611
"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
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Date: 1754
"You will be greater than Clementina, and that is greater than the greatest, if you can conquer a passion, that over-turned her reason"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1777
"The love, to which at length I discovered my heart to be subject, had conquered without tumult, and become despotic under the semblance of freedom."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)