Clarissa Harlowe

have wished, that the heinous practice of duelling had been more forcibly discouraged, by way of note, at the conclusion of a work designed to recommend the highest and most important doctrines of Christianity. It is humbly presumed, that these persons have not sufficiently attended to what is already done on that subject in Letter 56 and in Letters 490, 517, 519. ↩

See Letter 194. ↩

Spectator, Vol. I, No. XL. ↩

Yet, in Tamerlane, two of the most amiable characters, Moneses and Arpasia, suffer death. ↩

See Spectator Vol. VII. No. 548. ↩

A caution that our Blessed Saviour himself gives in the case of the eighteen person killed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, Luke 13:4. ↩

Vitiis nemo sine nascitur: optimus ille, Qui minimis urgentur. ↩

Rapin, on Aristotle’s Poetics. ↩

Psalm 73. ↩

See Letter 532. ↩

See Letter 535. ↩

See Letter 419. ↩

And here it may not be amiss to remind the reader, that so early in the work as Letter 82 the dispensations of Providence are justified by herself. And thus she ends her reflections⁠—“I shall not live always⁠—may my closing scene be happy!”⁠—She had her wish. It was happy. ↩

See Letter 193 and Letter 193. ↩

See Letter 346. ↩

See Letter 346. ↩

See Letter 366. ↩

See Letter 520. ↩

See Letter 55. ↩

See Letter 55. ↩

See Letter 346. ↩

See Letter 366. ↩

See Letter 510. ↩

See Letter 227. ↩

This quotation is translated from a Critique on the History of Clarissa, written in French, and published at Amsterdam. The whole Critique, rendered into English, was inserted in the Gentleman’s Magazine of June and August, 1749. The author has done great honour in it to the History of Clarissa; and as there are Remarks published with it, which answer several objections made to different passages in the story by that candid foreigner, the reader is referred to the aforesaid Magazine for both. ↩

See Letter 182. ↩

See her mother’s praises of her to Mrs. Norton, Letter 39. ↩

See Letter 529. ↩

See Letter 158, towards the conclusion. ↩

See Letter 170. ↩

See Letter 170. ↩

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Clarissa Harlowe
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