Date: 1762
"Another valuable purpose may be gathered, from considering in what manner objects are imprinted upon the mind."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1762
"To make such an impression as to give the memory fast hold of the object, time is required, even where attention is the greatest; and a moderate degree of attention, which is the common case, must be continued still longer to produce the same effect."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1762
"Along with these three kinds of law goes a fourth, most important of all, which is not graven on tablets of marble or brass, but on the hearts of the citizens."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1762
"The public force therefore needs an agent of its own to bind it together and set it to work under the direction of the general will, to serve as a means of communication between the State and the Sovereign, and to do for the collective person more or less what the union of soul and body does for...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1762
"Thy griefs pent up, have prey'd upon thy heart."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1762
"The unbridled Athamand, his sister's son, / In firm alliance with a noble princess, / Whom Persia's court had destin'd to his love, / (His tyrant passions brooking no controul,) / Demanded Zobeide as despotic master."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1762
"A Scythian's heart is steel'd 'gainst panic terrors."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1762
"Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me."
preview | full record— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)
Date: 1762
"Avarice has canker'd their imprison'd minds, / And lust of gold has blinded them to justice."
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