Date: 1793
"The equalisation we are describing is farther indebted for its empire in the mind to the ideas with which it is attended of personal happiness."
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Date: 1793
"If mind be now in a great degree the ruler of the system, why should it be incapable of extending its empire?"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"the selfish are not governed solely by sensual gratification or the love of gain, but that the desire of eminence and distinction is in different degrees an universal passion"
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Date: 1793
"Reason is the only legislator, and her decrees are irrevocable and uniform."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"We are more interested in the progress of the human mind, than in that of empires."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: w. 1795
We may "exert over our own heart a virtuous despotism, and lead our own Passions in triumph"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"The dissipation of Blandford, and the disputes of Portsmouth, consumed the hours which were not employed in the field; and amid the perpetual hurry of an inn, a barrack, or a guard-room, all literary ideas were banished from my mind."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"But Nature had designed him to think as he pleased, and to speak as he thought: his piety was offended by the excessive worship of creatures; and the study of physics convinced him of the impossibility of transubstantiation, which is abundantly refuted by the testimony of our senses."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1798
"Women have a frame of body more delicate and susceptible of impression than men, and, in proportion as they receive a less intellectual education, are more unreservedly under the empire of feeling."
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Date: 1798
"Wounded affection, wounded pride, all those principles which hold absolute empire in the purest and loftiest minds, urged her to still further experiments to recover her influence, and to a still more poignant desparation, long after reason would have directed her to desist, and resolutely call ...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)