Date: 1794
"In every voice: in every ban, / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
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Date: 1794
"Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! / In chains of the mind locked up, / Like fetters of ice shrinking together."
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Date: 1794
"And as these irritative ideas make up a part of the chain of our waking thoughts, introducing other ideas that engage our attention, though themselves are unattended to, we find it very difficult to investigate by what steps many of our hourly trains of ideas gain their admittance."
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Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
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Date: 1799
"I was driven, by a sort of mechanical impulse, in his foot-steps."
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Date: 1799
"All the circumstances of my present situation tended to arrest the progress of thought, and chain my contemplations to one image"
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