Date: 1790
"'Tis God's decree engrav'd upon the heart / To make us wait with patience, till he comes, / Undraws the curtain, and dispels the gloom, / And takes us to his bosom, and rewards / Our constancy and truth."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1792
"[T]he heart's decisions" may be "stamp'd / By Nature's seal, and man's primæval laws"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1795
"The infant mind has been compared to a tabula rasa, or sheet of clean paper: but there is this essential difference, as hath been well observed, between the opposite objects of comparison they are not both equally Indifferent to the inscription which they are to bear."
preview | full record— Napleton, John (1738/9-1817)