Date: 1771
"[T]he fumes of faction not only disturb the faculty of reason, but also pervert the organs of sense"
preview | full record— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)
Date: 1773
"But there was a judge in the bosom of Annesly, whom it was more difficult to satisfy; nor could he for a long time be brought to pardon himself that blow, for which the justice of his country had acquitted him."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
Suicide might be allowable if a man "were under no obligations to any law, either of Nature, or Reason, or Society: not to mention the Revealed Will of God, by which all murder is forbidden."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1773
"But he felt not that contrition which results from ingenuous sorrow for our offences; his soul was ruled by that gloomy demon, who looks only to the anguish of their punishment, and accuses the hand of providence, for calamity which himself has occasioned."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"Hide me, my friend, from the consciousness of my folly, or let it speak till its expiation be made, till I have banished Savillon from my mind ... Must I then banish him from my mind?"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"The love, to which at length I discovered my heart to be subject, had conquered without tumult, and become despotic under the semblance of freedom."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1794
I may act "in obedience to the principle which at present governed me with absolute dominion"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1796
"The trial is dangerous; he is just at that period of life when the passions are most vigorous, unbridled, and despotic."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"He closed his eyes, but strove in vain to banish her from his thoughts."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)