Date: 1825
"Vulgar passions--meteors of a day"--"expire before the chilling blasts of age"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1805-6, published 1833-6
"It would make no difference if there had been no Reason there, just as with physicists it is a matter of perfect indifference whether, for instance, there is such a thing as magnetism or not."
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)
Date: August 31, 1837
"But he, in his private observatory, cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind, which as yet no man has thought of as such, — watching days and months, sometimes, for a few facts; correcting still his old records; — must relinquish display and immediate fame."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)