It "is curious to observe how the nature of truth may be changed by the garb it wears; softened to the admonition of friendship, or soured into the severity of reproof: yet this severity may be useful to some tempers; it somewhat resembles a file; disagreeable in its operation, but hard metals may be the brighter for it."
The Man of Feeling
29 entries (1771, 1773, 1775, 1778, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>The Man of Feeling</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1771). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110923120&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Henry Mackenzie, <u>The Man of Feeling</u>, ed. Brian Vickers. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001).