Date: 1744
"Beneath what baleful planet, in what hour / Of desperation, by what Fury's aid, / In what infernal posture of the soul, / All hell invited, and all hell in joy / At such a birth, a birth so near of kin, / Did thy foul fancy whelp so black a scheme / Of hopes abortive, faculties half-blown, / And...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"If not all-adamant, Lorenzo! hear: / All is delusion; Nature is wrapp'd up, / In tenfold night, from Reason's keenest eye; / There's no consistence, meaning, plan, or end / In all beneath the sun, in all above, / (As far as man can penetrate,) or heaven / Is an immense, inestimable prize; / Or a...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"And what is Reason? Be she thus defined: / Reason is upright stature in the soul."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1751
"Nothing conduces so much to improve the mind, and confirm it in virtue, as being continually employed in surveying the actions of others, entering into the concerns of the virtuous, approving of their conduct, condemning vice, and showing an abhorrence at it; for the mind acquires strength by ex...
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1751
"As I discover power in external objects, by the eye, so I discover power in my mind, by an internal sense."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1751
"The mind is like the eye. It cannot take in an object that is very great or very little."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1798
Prejudices "are like old Wounds! when the weather changes they still smart"
preview | full record— Plumptre, Anne (1760-1818); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
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."
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