Date: 1791
"It seems as if his mind had ceased to struggle with the disease; for he grows fat upon it."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"No, Sir; violent pain of mind, like violent pain of body, must be severely felt."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
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Date: 1791
"But, enough of this subject; for your angry voice at Ashbourne upon it, still sounds aweful 'in my mind's ears.'"
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Date: January 19, 1791
"His blood they transfuse into their minds and into their manners."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: February 1791
"The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1791
"Johnson was much attached to London: he observed, that a man stored his mind better there, than any where else; and that in remote situations a man's body might be feasted, but his mind was starved, and his faculties apt to degenerate, from want of exercise and competition."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1791
"The mind, like the body, he observed, delighted in change and novelty, and even in religion itself, courted new appearances and modifications."
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Date: 1792
"Yet disappointed as we are, in our researches, the mind gains strength by the exercise, sufficient, perhaps, to comprehend the answers which, in another step of existence, it may receive to the anxious questions it asked, when the understanding with feeble wing was fluttering round the visible e...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"Yet, when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination."
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