Date: 1792
"So ductile is the understanding, and yet so stubborn, that the associations which depend on adventitious circumstances, during the period that the body takes to arrive at maturity, can seldom be disentangled by reason."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"Let all their thoughts be unconfined, / And clap your padlock on their mind."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1792
Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1793, 1797
"Then, while each hideous image to his mind, / Rises terrific, o'er a bleeding corse / Stumbling he falls."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1793
"All kings have possessed such a portion of luxury and ease, have been so far surrounded with servility and falshood, and to such a degree exempt from personal responsibility, as to destroy the natural and wholesome complexion of the human mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"In this unequal contest, alarm and apprehension will perpetually haunt the minds of those who exercise usurped power."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Mind is the creature of sensation; we have no other inlet of knowledge."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Mind will never arrive at the true tone of energy, till we feel that moral liberty and discretion are mere creatures of the imagination"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793, 1806
"And Truth's white bosom stampt with falsehood's stain!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)