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    "title": "The Works of the Late Miss Catharine Talbot, an Editorial Volume Associated with Elizabeth Carter",
    "author": "Catharine Talbot",
    "date": "Talbot’s texts composed before 1770; Carter’s edition in 1770",
    "summary": "This volume transmits writings by Catharine Talbot with biographical and editorial materials. Elizabeth Carter belongs to their history of preservation and publication, but the collected works remain Talbot’s and later additions require separate attribution.",
    "learning": "Distinguish Talbot’s texts, biographical testimony, and editorial work, then understand how an authorial reputation is constructed in posthumous publication.",
    "long_summary": "Talbot’s writings develop moral and religious reflection attentive to habit, duty, and daily conduct. The volume also prints a memory of the author intended to establish her character and social usefulness for a posthumous audience.\n\nSeveral editorial hands intervene in this manifestation, including Montagu Pennington’s biographical material. Material proximity does not turn preface, testimony, and Talbot’s work into Carter’s writing. Each component therefore requires its own provenance.",
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        "transport": "Walking, horses, stagecoaches, barges, and sailing ships. Roads and relays improve, but travel remains slow.",
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        "communication": "Newspapers, books, pamphlets, salons, and post move ideas at a new speed measured in days or weeks.",
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            "text": "Good nature is a quality that people are .as fond of possessing as any. ; Does it ever hold, throughout ? That pain, which we should abhor to inflict on the body of a friend, or a dependent, do we never suffer our caprice or humour to inflict it on their mind, an infinitely tenderer part ? ; That resentment and dislike, which we are strongly upon our guard against feel ing, in return for real injuries, and should justly reckon ourselves very bad Christians if we did other wise, do we never make them the punishment of trivial offences, and slight disagreeablenesses, in those to whom, perhaps we have solid obligations ? At the same time that we should desire, in cases of importance, to do all our fellowcreatures all possible good, do we seriously enough consider that the repeating an idle story, or spreading upon slight grounds, a disagreeable report, is acting most directly contrary to those laudable desires? can actually do good but to few : but \\ve ought to wish it as sincerely and as warmly to all, as if they were truly within the small circle of our own influence : and consequently, a mind, that is as good as it should be, will feel itself heartily interest ed in every interest of our fellow- creatures. Should we then listen with complacency, or even with careless ears, to the story of such faults, frailties and follies, as are real misfortunes to them ?",
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            "text": "La bonté naturelle est une qualité que les gens aiment autant posséder que toute autre. Se maintient-elle jamais d’un bout à l’autre ? Cette douleur que nous abhorrerions d’infliger au corps d’un ami ou d’une personne dépendant de nous, ne laissons-nous jamais notre caprice ou notre humeur l’infliger à son esprit, partie infiniment plus délicate ? Ce ressentiment et cette aversion que nous nous gardons fortement d’éprouver en retour d’offenses réelles, et qui nous feraient justement nous tenir pour de très mauvais chrétiens si nous agissions autrement, n’en faisons-nous jamais le châtiment d’offenses insignifiantes et de légers désagréments chez des personnes envers lesquelles nous avons peut-être de solides obligations ? Au moment même où nous désirerions, dans les affaires importantes, faire à tous nos semblables tout le bien possible, considérons-nous assez sérieusement que répéter une histoire oiseuse ou répandre, sur de faibles fondements, un bruit désagréable, c’est agir de la manière la plus directement contraire à ces désirs louables ?\n\nNous ne pouvons réellement faire du bien qu’à un petit nombre ; mais nous devrions le souhaiter à tous aussi sincèrement et aussi ardemment que s’ils se trouvaient véritablement dans le cercle restreint de notre propre influence ; et par conséquent un esprit aussi bon qu’il devrait l’être prendra de tout cœur intérêt à chacun des intérêts de nos semblables. Devrions-nous donc écouter avec complaisance, ou même d’une oreille indifférente, le récit de fautes, de faiblesses et de folies qui constituent pour eux de véritables malheurs ?",
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