Date: w. 1766, 1797
" His youth, his comeliness, his country too, / Will stamp him very Curan in her heart"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1766, 1797
"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1766, 1797
"The future whole infix upon thy mind; / Be there each line in truth ideal drawn"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1746, 1797
"His youthful breast, by years mature refin'd, / May shine the mirror of thy blameless mind."
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: w. 1794, 1797
"'Tis only those of purer clay / 'From sensual dross refined, / 'In whom the passions pleas'd obey / 'The God within the mind, / 'Who share my delegated aid, / 'Through Wisdom's golden mean convey'd / 'From the first source of sov'reign good."
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Date: 1797
"here's Redmond O'Hanlon, though now the constable and the county keeper, yet he was a heart of steel, that I'm sure of."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"For then first throbb'd an heart of steel."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"I would neither corrupt my imagination with impurity, nor steel my heart by barbarous narratives and sanguinary persecutions."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
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)