"The tenderest affections of her heart were too much concerned in what she had done, to leave her the power of feeling any apprehensions of poverty; all the evils that attend it then appeared to her so entirely external, that she beheld them with the calm philosophy of a stoic, and not from a very contrary motive; the insensibility of each arose from a ruling passion; the stoic's from pride, her's from love."
A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent
Five entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1764, 1767). Second edition, corrected in 1764; third edition in 1767.<br>
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Reading Sarah Scott, <u>A Description of Millenium Hall</u>, ed. Gary Kelly (Ontario: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001).<br>
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See also <u>A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent: Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections, as May excite in the Reader proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue. By A Gentleman on his Travels</u> (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://archive.org/details/descriptionofmil00scot">Link to archive.org</a>&gt;