#british lit chatter: long eighteenth century

[isabelpsaroslunnen]

I finished Moll Flanders and I think I can make it relevant to my dissertation, but my favorite part isn't, really. It's this:

In short, I began to think, and to think is one real advance from hell to heaven. All that hellish, hardened state and temper of soul, which I have said so much of before, is but a deprivation of thought; he that is restored to his power of thinking, is restored to himself.

[isabelpsaroslunnen]

I was checking my copy of Moll Flanders against the Project Gutenberg version, and my initial search produced:

lol