Date: 1752
The "blind Guidance" of a predominant passion may account for "the Success of Knaves, the Calamities of Fools," and "all the miseries in which Men of Sense sometimes involve themsleves"
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Date: 1753
Anger and contempt may be predominant passions of the mind
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1753
"Exert then the whole force of your reason to curb the incroachments of lawless passion in your own heart"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1754
One may pursue his own predominant passion
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
Gratitude may raise a throne for someone in one's heart
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
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: 1754
There is "narrow-hearted race of men, who live only for the gratification of their own lawless appetites, and consider all the rest of the world as made for themselves"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"My brother, tho' in the main, above singularity, will, nevertheless, in things he thinks right, be govern'd by his own rules, which are the laws of reason and convenience."
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Date: 1754
"Let [my love] be evermore circumscribed by the laws of reason, of duty"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)
Date: 1754
"How often has that tender bosom, whose glory it would have been to melt at another's woe, and to rejoice in acts of kindness and benevolence to her fellow-creatures, been armed by herself (not the mistress, but the slave, of her passions) not with defensive, but offensive, steel!"
preview | full record— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)