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Date: 1795

"Disdaining even the thought of flight or fear, / His life, his soul, by steady valor steel'd."

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

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Date: 1795

"O ye slaves whom Massa beat, / Ye are stained with guilt within / As ye hope for mercy sweet / So forgive your Massas' Sin."

— More, Hannah (1745-1833)

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Date: 1797

The gently-murmuring tide may reflect each reflection kind and be "A faithful mirror of the mind"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: 1798

"Law and Reason's Empire to the skies" may "On the firm base of British freedom rise"

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

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Date: 1798

"For scenes that frequent views of death impart, / Nerve the bold arm, and steel the manly heart"

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

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Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798

"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."

— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)

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Date: w. 1784, 1799

"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."

— West, Jane (1758-1852)

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Date: 1799

Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1799

"And, indeed, there is so much truth in the remark, that till women shall be more reasonably educated, and till the native growth of their mind shall cease to be stinted and cramped, we have no juster ground for pronouncing that their understanding has already reached its highest attainable point...

— More, Hannah (1745-1833)

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Date: 1799

"[W]hat knowledge they [women] have gotten stands out as it were above the very surface of their minds, like the appliquée of the embroiderer, instead of having been interwoven with the growth of the piece, so as to have become a part of the stuff. They did not, like men, acquire what they...

— More, Hannah (1745-1833)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.