Date: 1793
"A skilful writer of anecdotes, gratifies by suffering us to make something that looks like a discovery of our own; he gives a certain activity to the mind, and the reflections appear to arise from ourselves. He throws unperceivably seeds, and we see those flowers start up, which we believe to be...
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1793
"Marville says, that the famous orators in the pulpit and at the bar, of his time, used to read the finest passages of the poets, to germinate those seeds of eloquence which nature had scattered in their souls."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1793, 1794
"When future years in fancy's mirror rose, / What pleasure 'twas to lead thy opening mind, / Where virtue blossoms, and religion blows!"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (fl. 1793) [Rev.]
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"Her indulgent tenderness, the frankness of her temper, and my innate rising curiosity, soon removed all distance between us: like friends of an equal age, we freely conversed on every topic, familiar or abstruse; and it was her delight and reward to observe the first shoots of my young ideas."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"While I served in the militia, before and after the publication of my essay, this idea ripened in my mind; nor can I paint in more lively colours the feelings of the moment, than by transcribing some passages, under their respective dates, from a journal which I kept at that time."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"The second was still too young to benefit by my instructions; but in the heart of my eldest I laboured unceasingly to plant those principles which might enable him to avoid the crimes of his parents."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"I suffered not my grief at this circumstance to take root in my mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"Extreme simplicity prevented her from perceiving the aim to which the monk's insinuations tended; but the excellent morals which she owed to Elvira's care, the solidity and correctness of her understanding, and a strong sense of what was right, implanted in her heart by nature, made her feel tha...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
"Vice with them is rather an accidental and temporary, than a constitutional and habitual distemper; a noxious plant, which, though found to live and even to thrive in the human mind, is not the natural growth and production of the soil."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1797
"We learn from the Scriptures that it is one main part of the operations of the Holy Spirit, to implant those heavenly principles in the human mind, and to cherish their growth."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)