"It matters not, though gen'rous in their nature, / They yet may serve a most ungen'rous end; / And he who teaches men to think, though nobly, / Doth raise within their minds a busy judge / To scan his actions."
Basil: A Tragedy
3 entries in ESTC (1798, 1800).<br>
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Text from Joanna Baillie, <u>The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie</u> (London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1851).<br>
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See also <u>A Series of Plays in Which It is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind</u> (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=mncuAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;