Date: 1782
"In this view of the case perhaps that species of detraction, which a court of law will not denominate a libel, in a court of conscience and in the eye of Heaven shall amount to murder. I had almost forgot to add that Castillo was a poet."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1794
I may act "in obedience to the principle which at present governed me with absolute dominion"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1764?
"Whether we will or no, Through reason's court doth [the word lord] unquestion'd go"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1795
One may have "The throne of Virtue in [his] steadfast heart"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780-1?
"The inner judicial proceeding of conscience may be aptly compared with an external court of law."
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Date: 1755
"There are so many ways of fallacy, such arts of giving colours, appearances and resemblances by this court-dresser, the fancy"
preview | full record— Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]