The Touch-Stone of Truth: Uniting Mr. Swift's Late Correspondence With the Rev. Doctor Dobbin, and His Family; And the Detailed Account of Their Subsequent Challenge and Imposture (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from The Touch-Stone of Truth: Uniting Mr. Swift's Late Correspondence With the Rev. Doctor Dobbin, and His Family; And the Detailed Account of Their Subsequent Challenge and Imposture

No one, it is presumed, will doubt the affec tionl bear Miss Dobbin: herself will be the last to question it: but I would not exchange the intelligent bond by which she holds my heart, the fine confidence that her favour had in spired, or the delicate hope thati had drawn from the graciousness of her correspondence, for the most conclusive contract that ever bound man or woman. Ishould disdain to argue it; I should blush to exhibit technical evidence of her favor! If Honor cannot bind, what human restraint can controul And if it could, what honorable man would regard it Or who could esteem the woman to whom he was bound only by a coarse obligation? The word Contract.

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