Date: 1859
"Not one of the three could could have said, from anything he saw, what either of the other two was like; and each was hidden under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of mind, as from the eyes of the body."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Date: 1859
" Not all this world's gay hopes, nor present charms, / Nor parents tears, nor a fond husband's arms, / Could stamp the least impression on her mind, / Or fix to earth a soul for heav'n design'd."
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1859
"(For sure thy sire had not a heart of steel)"
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: November 24, 1859
"Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite...
preview | full record— Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Date: November 24, 1859
"A few naturalists, endowed with much flexibility of mind, and who have already begun to doubt on the immutability of species, may be influenced by this volume; but I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impa...
preview | full record— Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Date: August 6 and 20, 1859
"The jaded cart-horse of the commonplace bourgeois mind falters of course in confusion in front of the ditch separating substance from appearance, and cause from effect; but one should not ride carthorses if one intends to go coursing over the very rough ground of abstract reasoning."
preview | full record— Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895)
Date: February 14, 1860
"But, in England, it is some subaltern spokesman, some worn-out place-hunter, some anonymous nonentity of a so-called Cabinet, that, relying on the donkey power of the Parliamentary mind and the bewildering evaporations of an anonymous press, without making any noise, without incurring any danger...
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: 1862
"Intestine war no more our passions wage; / E'en giddy factions hear away their rage."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1862
"When reason gets into the throne, / The court shall teach us to be godly."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1862
"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)