Date: 1774
"Reason, therefore, at once gives judgment upon the cause; and the vagrant intruder, imagination, is imprisoned, or banished from the mind."
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Date: 1775
"Coriolanus has here carried his sternness, and the strained principles of stoical pride, whose throne is only in the mind, as far as they could go; and now great Nature, whose more sovereign seat of empire is in the heart, takes her turn to triumph; for upon the joint prayers, tears, and intreat...
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1776
"he more approaching to the testimony of our senses every philosophical solution is, the more perhaps is it conformable to nature."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)