Date: 1801
A strenuous mind may have "master passions" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
Doubts and fears may "Contend for empire and distract the mind"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
One may fix his empire "o'er the soul of man"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
Subtlety may steal "insidious empire o'er [the] weaken'd heart"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1807-8
"Let them approach: / Myriads of slaves like these appal not me, / Who in my people's hearts have built my throne, / Strong as their courage, stedfast as their truth."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1815
One may be a "groveling slave of sense" (e.g., a miser or a epicure)
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)