"Not only their Understandings labour continually, which is the severest Labour, but their Hearts are torn by the worst, most troublesome, and insatiable of all Passions, by Avarice, by Ambition, by Fear and Jealousy. No part of the Mind has Rest. Power gradually extirpates from the Mind every humane and gentle Virtue."
A Vindication of Natural Society
5 entries in ESTC (1756, 1757, 1766, 1780, 1796).<br>
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See <u>A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** by a Late Noble Writer.</u> (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1756). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004807794.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;