Date: 1793
"The equalisation we are describing is farther indebted for its empire in the mind to the ideas with which it is attended of personal happiness."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"If mind be now in a great degree the ruler of the system, why should it be incapable of extending its empire?"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"the selfish are not governed solely by sensual gratification or the love of gain, but that the desire of eminence and distinction is in different degrees an universal passion"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Reason is the only legislator, and her decrees are irrevocable and uniform."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"We are more interested in the progress of the human mind, than in that of empires."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1793
"It is here that the mind holds its empire, though it is impossible to demonstrate how this is effected, and beyond this point its power ceases."
preview | full record— Valli, Eusebius (1762-1815)
Date: 1793
"The empire of the mind is extended by experience and practice."
preview | full record— Valli, Eusebius (1762-1815)
Date: w. 1795
We may "exert over our own heart a virtuous despotism, and lead our own Passions in triumph"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"The dissipation of Blandford, and the disputes of Portsmouth, consumed the hours which were not employed in the field; and amid the perpetual hurry of an inn, a barrack, or a guard-room, all literary ideas were banished from my mind."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"A fine country, and diversified views, may soften even the keenest affliction of decided misfortune, and tranquilise the most gloomy sadness into resignation and composure; but suspense rejects the gentle palliative; 'tis an absorbent of the faculties that suffers them to see, hear, and feel onl...
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)