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He who is fo happy as to have acquired a relifli for thefe, has always at hand an innoCent and irreproachable amufement for his leifure hours, to fave him from the danger of many a pernicious paffion.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1812

It was the clajQb of parliamentary debate and the: vioknt collifions of party, which afterwards ftruclc out the latent fii3& of his foul,, and betrayed thofe fatal weakneflfcs, that extreme irritability of temper, that uncontrolled and almoft frantic vehe - mence of paffion, which became the caufe of fuch fi-equent vex - ation to UTs firiends, and expofcd him fo often to the attacks of/hia enemies ..

memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke charles m'cormick 1798

Farelli was was ftill a ftratiger to the paffion of his noble benefaftor; and for fome days he hardly once faw him, or knew what conjefture to make.

Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797

How often is a doubtful and veering paffion confirmed by a kind adieu!

Henry Somerville, by the author of Hartlebourn castle 1797

She had acquired, in her youth, tiac very dangerous talent of forging 'any hand that fhe pleafed; and her paffion for mifchief had aiFirded her much pra£ti but poor Amelia could hardly fwallow a morfel; her mind was in a tu - multuous agitation of pleafure and amazement.

Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797

The paffion that's mutual impart j No care fhall your union annoy,

Poetic effusions; pastoral, moral, amatory, and descriptive Perfect, William, 1737-1809 1796

Love was treated more as an appetite than a paffion.

The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796

The ardour of paffion, and the obftinacy of prejudice are now abated: fvibmiflion and reverence, affedlion apd O 2 confidence I oS On the Freedom ofChrift's Difciples.

Sermons on practical subjects Worthington, Hugh 1796

The fire of youth beginning to cool, and his ufual pleafures to pall upon his fenfes, he was fudctenly feized with an irrefiftible paffion for ftudy.

A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the ... 1795

Almoft every paffion which could agitate the human breail, interefled States and individuals for and againil the adoption of the propofed plan of government: fome whole clafles of people were in its favour.

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. [from old catalog] 1795