Date: August 4, 1778
"Behold! the soul shall waft away, / Whene'er we come to die, / And leave its cottage made of clay, / In twinkling of an eye."
preview | full record— Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c.1800)
Date: 1787
"Again, when some desires retire, there are others akin to them, which grow up, and through inattention to the father's instructions, become both many and powerful, draw towards intimacies among themselves, and generate a multitude, seize the citadel or the soul of the youth, finding it evacuated...
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)
Date: 1799
The mind may be a theater "of discord and agony"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My understanding was bemazed, and my senses were taught to distrust their own testimony"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"I endeavoured to shut out phantoms of the dying Wallace, and to forget the spectacle of domestic woes."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"Immured in these dreary meditations, the night passed away."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Every sense was an inlet of pleasure, because it was an avenue to knowledge; and my soul brooded over the world of ideas, and glowed with exultation at the grandeur and beauty of its own creations"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"[I]f my heart thus bounds till its mansion scarcely hold it, what must be my state tomorrow!"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1811
"But the temple of human nature has two great apartments: the intellectual and the moral."
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)
Date: 1811
"If there is not a mutual friendship and strict alliance between these [two apartments], degradation to the whole building must be the consequence."
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)