Date: 1793
"Their result will be thick darkness of the mind, timidity, servility, hypocrisy."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"It is curious to observe the first dawn of genius breaking on the mind. Sometimes a man of genius, in his first effusions, is so far from revealing his future powers, that, on the contrary, no reasonable hope can be formed of his success."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: November 19, 1793
"Like the blue firmament above us, our minds and fortunes are constantly changing. The sun that descends in glory amidst the serenity of an evening sky, frequently rises in the morning, through the gloom of clouds, and the rage of storms."
preview | full record— Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)
Date: 1794
"It [Christianity] has put the whole orbit of reason into shade."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"Reason is God's candle in man. But, as a candle must first be lighted, ere it will enlighten; so reason must be illuminated by divine grace, ere it can savingly discern spiritual things."
preview | full record— Toplady, Augustus (1740-1771)
Date: 1796
"He ponders on the world,--abhors the whole; / While black as night, his gloomy thought expands / O'er life's perplexing paths, and barren sands"
preview | full record— Merry, Robert (1755-1798)
Date: 1796
"Reason's dying lamp / Scarce brighter burns than instinct in their breast"
preview | full record— Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"But this obscurity sometimes proceeds from a mixture of light and darkness in the author's mind; from a partial ray which strikes upon an angle, instead of spreading itself over the surface of an object."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"The effect [of wit on the mind] is strong,--because it's odd, / Like fire electric from a clod; / Or when fix'd air puts out a light, / Tho' vital makes it blaze more bright."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1796
"He pronounced the most severe sentences upon offenders, which the moment after compassion induced him to mitigate: he undertook the most daring enterprizes, which the fear of their consequences soon obliged him to abandon: his inborn genius darted a brilliant light upon subjects the most obscure...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)