Date: 1762
Grief may be subdued "by reason's empire shown"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1777
"The most pointed satire I remember to have read, on a mind enslaved by anger, is an observation of Seneca's."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1777
"But the heart, that natural seat of evil propensities, that little troublesome empire of the passions, is led to what is right by slow motions and imperceptible degrees."
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1782
"Perish the barb'rous maxims of the East, / Which basely wou'd enslave the free-born mind, / And plunder it of the best gift of Heav'n, / Its liberty!"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1784
Vanity is more a man's ruling passion than a woman's
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1788
"Does matter govern spirit? or is mind / Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: May 13, 1789
"[T]he Slave Trade has enslaved their [Africans'] minds, blackened their character and sunk them so low in the scale of animal beings, that some think the very apes are of a higher class, and fancy the Ourang Outang has given them the go-by."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)