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."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
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)
Date: 1798
"But a connection more memorable originated about this time, between Mary and a person of her own sex, for whom she contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1799
"My brain was usurped by some benumbing power, and my limbs refused to support me."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"To meet him, after so long a separation, here, and in these circumstances, was so unlooked-for and abrupt and event, and revived a tribe of such hateful impulses and agonizing recollections, that a total revolution seemed to have been reflected in my frame."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"And, in the waveless mirror of his mind, / Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind, / Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began!"
preview | full record— Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)
Date: 1800
There may be revolutions in the mind
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1803
"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1803
"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1817
"Ah! when will the yoke of Custom--Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all the other tyrants make their slave--ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?--when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?"
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)