Date: 1789
"Then he assured me, that one sin unatoned for was as sufficient to damn a soul as one leak was to sink a ship."
preview | full record— Equiano, Olaudah [Gustavus Vasa] (c. 1745-1797)
Date: 1793
In sleep "Our tired attention resigns the helm, ideas swim before us in wild confusion, and are attended with less and less distinctness, till at length they leave no traces in the memory."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)