Date: w. 1805
"Call we this / But a persuasion taken up by Thee / In friendship; yet the mind is to herself / Witness and judge, and I remember well / That in life's every-day appearances / I seem'd about this period to have sight / Of a new world, a world, too, that was fit / To be transmitted and made visibl...
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Date: w. 1798-1800, 1814
"Of the individual Mind that keeps her own / Inviolate retirement, subject there / To Conscience only, and the law supreme / Of that Intelligence which governs all."
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Date: 1850
"But Nature then was sovereign in my mind, / And mighty forms, seizing a youthful fancy, / Had given a charter to irregular hopes."
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Date: 1850
"Nor was it mean delight / To watch crude Nature work in untaught minds; / To note the laws and progress of belief."
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Date: 1850
"So I fared, / Dragging all precepts, judgments, maxims, creeds, / Like culprits to the bar; calling the mind, / Suspiciously, to establish in plain day / Her titles and her honours"
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Date: 1850
"The mind is lord and master--outward sense / The obedient servant of her will"
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Date: 1850
"Moreover, each man's Mind is to herself / Witness and judge"
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