under-satisfactions

Updated: August 17, 2026

Norton, That a person who has any over-ruling passion, will compound by giving up twenty secondary or under-satisfactions, though more laudable ones, in order to have that gratified. It will confirm to you that what your sister's insolent Betty reported he should say, of governing by fear, was not of her own head.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2