“The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.”
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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
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