Date: 1823
"Not that I affect ignorance- but my head has not many mansions, nor spacious; and I have been obliged to fill it with such cabinet curiosities as it can hold without aching"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"Not that I affect ignorance--but my head has not many mansions, nor spacious; and I have been obliged to fill it with such cabinet curiosities as it can hold without aching"
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Date: 1823
"But at the desk Tipp was quite another sort of creature. Thence all ideas, that were purely ornamental, were banished"
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Date: 1823
"His pen was not less erring than his heart"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: November 1824
"Surely it is no exaggeration to say that no external advantage is to be compared with that purification of the intellectual eye which gives us to contemplate the infinite wealth of the mental world, all the hoarded treasures of its primeval dynasties, all the shapeless ore of its yet unexplored ...
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Date: March, 1826
"And both these effects are of equal use to human life; for the mind of man is like the sea, which is neither agreeable to the beholder nor the voyager, in a calm or in a storm, but is so to both when a little agitated by gentle gales; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions or affe...
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Date: 1831
"By the mind we understand that within us which feels and thinks, the seat of sensation and reason"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"We spurn at the bounds of time and space; nor would the thought be less futile that imagines to imprison the mind within the limits of the body, than the attempt of the booby clown who is said within a thick hedge to have plotted to shut in the flight of an eagle"
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Date: 1831
"The body is apprehended as no more important and of intimate connection to a man engaged in a train of reflections, than the house or apartment in which he dwells"
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Date: 1831
"The mind may aptly be described under the denomination of the 'stranger at home.'"
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