Date: 1831
"On set occasions and at appropriate times we examine our stores, and ascertain the various commodities we have, laid up in our presses and our coffers. Like the governor of a fort in time of peace, which was erected to keep out a foreign assailant, we occasionally visit our armoury, and take acc...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"Hence arises the notion, which has been entertained ever since the birth of reflection and logical discourse in the world, and which in some faint and confused degree exists probably even among savages, that the body is the prison of the mind"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"The human mind is a creature of celestial origin, shut up and confined in a wall of flesh"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"These similitudes or relations are finely said by Lord Bacon to be "the same footsteps of nature impressed upon the various subjects of the world"[1] and he considers the faculty which perceives them as the storehouse of axioms common to all knowledge."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)