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Date: 1785
"I have often experienced, that scenes through which a man has passed, improve by lying in the memory: they grow mellow."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"I beg leave to say something upon second sight, of which I have related two instances, as they impressed my mind at the time."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"To entertain a visionary notion that one sees a distant or future event, may be called superstition; but the correspondence of the fact or event with such an impression on the fancy, though certainly very wonderful, if proved, has no more connection with superstition, than magnetism or electrici...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"The mind of man can bear a certain pressure; but there is a point when it can bear no more."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"I answered I would not; and he applauded my setting such a value on an accession of new images in my mind."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"In fetters confined Our body complains, / Oppress'd is our mind , With heavier chains."
preview | full record— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)
Date: 1785
"To apply his great mind to minute particulars, is wrong: it is like taking an immense balance, such as is kept on quays for weighing cargoes of ships, to weigh a guinea. I knew I had neat little scales, which would do better; and that his attention to every thing which falls in his way, and his ...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: w. October 27, 1777, printed 1788
"In a man's letters, you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: April 5, 1781, 1788
"Cultivated ground has few weeds; a mind occupied by lawful business, has little room for useless regret."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: February 3, 1788
"The spirit of the Gospel 'proclaims liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound:' but these men rivet the chains of slavery; 'the iron enters into the Negro's soul,' while while his mind is left in all the darkness of ignorance, without one ray of those comforts ...
preview | full record— Agutter, William (1758-835)
