Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"Her indulgent tenderness, the frankness of her temper, and my innate rising curiosity, soon removed all distance between us: like friends of an equal age, we freely conversed on every topic, familiar or abstruse; and it was her delight and reward to observe the first shoots of my young ideas."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"While I served in the militia, before and after the publication of my essay, this idea ripened in my mind; nor can I paint in more lively colours the feelings of the moment, than by transcribing some passages, under their respective dates, from a journal which I kept at that time."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"Her mind was a soil which received and naturalized all that was sown in it."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"Gaiety was so truly the native growth of the mind of Camilla, that neither care nor affliction could chace it long from its home."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
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)
Date: 1797
"Examine carefully, whether the unchristian tempers, which you would eradicate, are not maintained in vigour by selfishness and pride; and strive to subdue them effectually, by extirpating the roots from which they derive their nutriment."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)