"As his most powerful and predominant Passion was Ambition, so Nature had with consummate Propriety, adapted all his Faculties to the attaining those glorious Ends, to which this Passion directed him."
The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
At least 13 entries in ESTC (1743, 1754, 1758, 1763, 1774, 1775, 1782, 1785, 1793, 1795).<br>
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Text from <u>Miscellanies, by Henry Fielding</u>, 3 vols. (London: Printed for the Author, 1743). [Jonathan Wild in Vol. 3] &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000028797:0">Link to LION</a>&gt;