Date: 1791
"But, enough of this subject; for your angry voice at Ashbourne upon it, still sounds aweful 'in my mind's ears.'"
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: January 19, 1791
"His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: February 1791
"The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1791
"Johnson was much attached to London: he observed, that a man stored his mind better there, than any where else; and that in remote situations a man's body might be feasted, but his mind was starved, and his faculties apt to degenerate, from want of exercise and competition."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"The mind, like the body, he observed, delighted in change and novelty, and even in religion itself, courted new appearances and modifications."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1792
"Another philosopher following the analogy of nature, observes, that as all mens faces are different, we may well suppose their minds to be so likewise."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1793
"The tendency of all false systems of political institution is to render the mind lethargic and torpid."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"But it is certain that truth is adequate to awaken the mind without the aid of adversity"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"For that purpose, thoroughly understand it yourself, impregnate your mind with its evidence, and speak from the clearness of your view, and the fulness of conviction."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"It is not to the sound of intellectual health that the remedy so urgently addresses itself, as to those who are infected with diseases of the mind. "
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)