Date: January 13, 1796
"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1797-8, 1799
"Conscience is practical reason holding the human being's duty before him for his acquittal or condemnation in every case that comes under a law."
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Date: 1797-8, 1799
"Consciousness of an inner court in the human being ('before which his thoughts accuse or excuse one another') is conscience."
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
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: 1798
Virtue may slumber "and vice for a moment usurped her throne in [one's] heart" but she may awake again, "and with a look abashed and banished the usurper for ever"
preview | full record— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)
Date: 1798
A king may "Cherish the ripening mind of [his] vast empire"
preview | full record— Noehden, Georg Heinrich (1770-1826) and John Stoddart (1773-1856)
Date: 1798
"Law and Reason's Empire to the skies" may "On the firm base of British freedom rise"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1798
One may be "banished ... not only from [another's] heart, but from all share of empire"
preview | full record— Noehden, Georg Heinrich (1770-1826) and John Stoddart (1773-1856)