… he took every precaution that the venereal diſorder ſhould not be communicated to theſe happy, unoffending people; but it appears … that ſome ungenerous Frenchman was baſe enough to plant this dreadful malady, in a country where … it is more likely to ſpread than in any other part of the world, on account of the extreme attachment of the inhabitants to the Cytherean ſports.

There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove.

She who would fain give the starry worlds to the object of her affection—it is a fine and beautiful pride which makes her shrink from aught of benefit from him.

For I think it truth that a life uncommanded now is uncommanded; a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed; a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely: for the past is gone and no one knows the future.