"Not but that, when you are the subject, one may perceive at the bottom of that susceptible mind, a certain tenderness, which friendship alone, though not less affecting, still expresses in a different manner; but I have long observed that it is impossible to see you, or to think of you with indifference; and if to that general affection which the sight of you inspires, we add the more tender impression which an indelible recollection must have left upon his mind, we shall find that it is difficult and almost impossible that, with the most rigid virtue, he should be otherwise than he is."
Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters [La Nouvelle HÃ©loÃ¯se]
At least ten entries in the ESTC (1761, 1764, 1767, 1769, 1776, 1784, 1795).<br>
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Text from <u>Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters Collected and Published by J.J. Rousseau. Translated from the French.</u> 4 vols. (London: Printed for R. Griffiths and T. Becket, 1761). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XQBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. I</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kgBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. II</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=twBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. III</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2ABEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. IV</a>&gt;