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."
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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
"Flit, Galloway, and find / Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, / The picture of thy mind"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1793, 1806
"And Truth's white bosom stampt with falsehood's stain!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
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: 1794
"I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames. / And thou dost stamp them with a signet"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"Though it is not a direct article of the Christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable Creation, yet it is so worked up therewith, from what is called the Mosaic account of the creation, the story of Eve and the apple, and the counterpart of that story, the death...
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)