I am not to know the contents of his Letter. The hearts of us women, when we are urged to give way to a clandestine and unequal address, or when incl… - Samuel Richardson

But I have no patience with you, sinner as you are against light, and better knowlege! and derider of the infirmities, not of old maids, but of old age! — Don’t you hope to live long, yourself?

O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!

Mr. Lowther told me just now, that the fault of the gentlemen who have now the care of him, has not been want of skill, but of critical courage, and a too great solicitude to oblige their patient; which, by their own account, had made them forego several opportunities which had offered to assist nature. In short, Sir, said he, your friend knows too much of his own case to be ruled, and too little to qualify him to direct what is to be done, especially as symptoms must have been frequently changing.