Date: 1776
"I really begin to think that his heart is 'soused in snow,' as Madame de l'Enclos says of Sevigné, which neither your bright eyes or mine can thaw."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1767, 1778
"Here science, like the sun, see radiant rise, / With intellectual beam, through mental skies, / To gild, to gladden all th' improving space, / With taste, with candor, learning, sense, and grace; / To light up all the mind's remotest cells, / Where fancy fledges, and where genius dwells."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1773, 1778
One may "tempest up the Soul, or make it calm and still."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1787
"It is enough--my scruples are at an end--my prejudices, like clouds before the rising sun, vanish before the lights of your superior reason."
preview | full record— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Date: November 19, 1793
"Like the blue firmament above us, our minds and fortunes are constantly changing. The sun that descends in glory amidst the serenity of an evening sky, frequently rises in the morning, through the gloom of clouds, and the rage of storms."
preview | full record— Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)
Date: 1796
"It has nothing that can keep the mind erect under the gusts of adversity."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)