Date: January 8, 1824
"The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1825
The "searching mind" may make "keen glances"
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
The mind may be sick and impatient
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1825
The heart may be naked and unarmoured
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1831
"In the ruminations of the inner man, and the dissecting our thoughts and desires, we employ our intellectual arithmetic, we add, and subtract, and multiply, and divide, without asking the aid, without adverting to the existence, of our joints and members"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"He does not think it worth his while under these circumstances, to 'gird up the loins of his mind.'"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)