Date: 1793
"Reason is the only legislator, and her decrees are irrevocable and uniform."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"But wicked man! what does he, carnal wretch, / With all his horse-like passions on full stretch?"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1793
"We must sharpen our intellectual weapons; add to the stock of our knowledge; be pervaded with a sense of the magnitude of our cause; and perpetually increase that calm presence of mind and self possession which must enable us to do justice to our principles."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"My sanctuary is in my mind."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"Her mind was a kind of circulating library in little, and I sincerely wish romances were always attended with the same good effects they produced in her; for there is scarcely a good moral inculcated by them that she did not act up to."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"I am looking, madam,' said she, 'over the catalogue of my mind, to see if I have ever read any thing like it"
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"She said she foresaw that, if his heart was not steel and adamant, he would be ruined; that she had read his mind thoroughly, and plainly saw that the only vice he had in the world was want of deceit."
preview | full record— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)
Date: 1793
"Yet when anecdotes are not merely transcribed, but animated by judicious reflections, they recal others of a kindred nature: one suggests another; and the whole series is made to illustrate some topic that gratifies curiosity, or impresses on the mind some interesting conclusion in the affairs o...
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1793
"We are more interested in the progress of the human mind, than in that of empires."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1793
"Human nature, like a vast machine, is not to be understood by looking on its superficies, but by dwelling on its minute springs and little wheels."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)