Date: 1794
"To each heart pale fear's a stranger, / Honour bids us to the fight."
preview | full record— Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823)
Date: 1794
"No--no!--no man's temper's more mild, when taken at a proper season, but now his head's as crowded as a newspaper, and in as much confusion as your work-bag, what with the thoughts of his new varnish, and the expectation of Mr. Vapour,--I'll speak to him for you."
preview | full record— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)
Date: 1794
"Therefore I take the mind or soul of men to be so perfectly indifferent to receive all impressions, as a rasa tabula, or white paper, &c."
preview | full record— Morell, Thomas (1703-1784)
Date: 1794, 1800
"Be hot with wrath, great iron-hearted Mack"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1794
"I have always made it a rule to treat those voluntary visitors [that bolt into the mind of their own accord] with civility, taking care to examine, as well as I was able, if they were worth entertaining; and it is from them I have acquired almost all the knowledge that I have."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher; the reason of which is, that principles, being of a distinct quality to circumstances, cannot be impressed upon the memory; their place of mental residence is the understanding, and they are never so lasting as when they begin by conception."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in the way of beginning learning for himself afterwards."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"It [Christianity] has put the whole orbit of reason into shade."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"Though it is not a direct article of the Christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable Creation, yet it is so worked up therewith, from what is called the Mosaic account of the creation, the story of Eve and the apple, and the counterpart of that story, the death...
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)