June 2013
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History is a relation of the most natural and important events; history, therefore, gratifies curiosity, but it does not often excite terror or pity; the mind feels not that tenderness for a falling state, which it feels for an injured beauty; nor is it so much alarmed at the migration of barbarians who mark their way with desolation and fill the world with violence and rapine, as at the fury of a husband, who, deceived into jealousy by false appearances, stabs a faithful and affectionate wife, kneeling at his feet, and pleading to be heard.
” —John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, no. 4 (1752)