Date: 1776
"It is this which hath been so justly celebrated as giving one man an ascendant over others, superior even to what despotism itself can bestow; since by the latter the more ignoble part, only the body and its members, are enslaved; whereas, from the dominion of the former, nothing is exempted, ne...
preview | full record— Campbell, George (1719-1796)
Date: w. April 18, 1776; 1777
"Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1783
"For the passions and imagination mutually affect each other; and the same rules will serve for the government of both."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"The fruits of Sobriety are health, gladness, governable passions, clear discernment, rectitude of opinion, the esteem of others, and long life; which, with an approving conscience, are the greatest blessings here below, and, in all common cases, an effectual security against a diseased imaginati...
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"I should not do justice to my subject, if I did not recommend moderate application to the studious in general, and to those of them chiefly whose fancy has become ungovernable from a depression of mind."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)