Date: 1792
"But indeed, a little consideration will soon enable us to account for the ignorance of mankind in this interesting particular; and will teach us, that it solely arises from those baneful habits of perverse reasoning, which have from time to time immemorial taken root in the minds of men, and hav...
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Date: 1792 [1794]
"Your head's an auction-room of gauze and ruffles"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792 [1794]
"If female minds are uninform'd and blank, / Whom, lordly sirs! are female tongues to thank?"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792 [1794]
A wife chosen from "the coarse, what groveling brood" will be in thought "barren and in speech how rude"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"We from your judgment to your hearts appeal, / Generous as brave, you are not hearts of steel"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"That sweet enchantress ... Can give to Fancy's work a blaze more bright, / Or Reason's steady lamp feed with new light."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"Her Heart a Stranger to Disguise; / Her Mind as perfect as her Face"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
Date: 1792
"Howe'er on classic grounds they take defence; / Howe'er adroit their nostrums they dispense; / Impartially let loss and gain be tried, / And soon the balance Reason will decide."
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Date: 1792
Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"[T]he heart's decisions" may be "stamp'd / By Nature's seal, and man's primæval laws"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)