Date: 1793
"Reason is the only legislator, and her decrees are irrevocable and uniform."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"We are more interested in the progress of the human mind, than in that of empires."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1793
"It is here that the mind holds its empire, though it is impossible to demonstrate how this is effected, and beyond this point its power ceases."
preview | full record— Valli, Eusebius (1762-1815)
Date: 1793
"The empire of the mind is extended by experience and practice."
preview | full record— Valli, Eusebius (1762-1815)
Date: 1793
"Alas the sex you little know, / Their ruling passion is a Beau."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1794
A fiend may set "reason up for judge / Of our most holy Mystery"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"Bid your minds then sit calmly on their thrones, amidst the hurly burly of critical attacks."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1794
"I do know thee brave, and in the breast, where fire-ey'd courage rears her rugged throne, sure honor must inhabit!"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1794
The mists of faction may pour around one's head
preview | full record— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)
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)