Date: 1791
"In short, it must not be concealed, that like many other good and pious men, amongst whom we may place the Apostle Paul, upon his own authority, Johnson was not free from propensities which were ever 'warring against the law of his mind,'--and that in his combats with them, he was sometimes over...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1798 [1797?]
"The government of Head and Heart soon chang'd, / All former plans of thinking were derang'd; / Cupid's fond garrison was put to route, / Hypothesis march'd in, and Love march'd out."
preview | full record— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Date: 1799
"The heart and the mind are prejudiced judges, ever at war with consistency and truth; they recoil with indignation from the smallest speck on another's conduct, yet pass with exultation over the mountain that darkens their own"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)