Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"By many, conversation is esteemed as a theatre or a school: but, after the morning has been occupied by the labours of the library, I wish to unbend rather than to exercise my mind; and in the interval between tea and supper I am far from disdaining the innocent amusement of a game at cards."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"Her form and her mind were of equal elasticity."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"The form and the mind of Lavinia were in the most perfect harmony."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"How, at a moment like this, could she make her purposed confession to her father, whose wounded mind demanded all she could offer of condolement?"
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"I shall paint your meeting in my 'mind's eye,' see you again restored to the sunshine of her fondness, and while away my solitary languor with reveries far more soothing than any that I have yet experienced at Belfont."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"An idea of any active service invigorates the body as well as the mind."
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Date: 1796
"The eye of the mind is dazzled and vanquished."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1796
"An ancient writer, Plutarch, I think it is, quotes some verses on the eloquence of Pericles, who is called "the only orator that left stings in the minds of his hearers." Like his, the eloquence of the declaration, not contradicting, but enforcing sentiments of the truest humanity, has left stin...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1796
"It is the common doom of man that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body, or the sweat of his mind."
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Date: 1797
"But it is sometimes not difficult to any one who is accustomed, if the phrase may be allowed, to the anatomy of the human mind, to discern, that generally speaking, the persons who use the above language, rely not so much on the merits of Christ, and on the agency of Divine Grace, as on their ow...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)