Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"Such hardships may steel the mind and body against the injuries of fortune; but my timid reserve was astonished by the crowd and tumult of the school; the want of strength and activity disqualified me for the sports of the play-field; nor have I forgotten how often in the year forty-six I was re...
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1796
"Low in a humble Preface authors kneel; / In vain, the wearied reader's heart is steel."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1797
"I would neither corrupt my imagination with impurity, nor steel my heart by barbarous narratives and sanguinary persecutions."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1797
"Remember that the Divine Agency is promised, 'to take away the heart of stone, and give a heart of flesh,' of which it is the natural property to be tender and susceptible."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1798
"Objects or thoughts, that have been associated with pleasure, retain the power of pleasing; as the needle touched by the loadstone acquires polarity, and retains it long after the loadstone is withdrawn."
preview | full record— Edgeworth, Maria
Date: 1798
"In making observations upon subjects which are new to us, we must be content to use our memory unassisted at first by our reason; we must treasure up the ore and rubbish together, because we cannot immediately distinguish them from each other."
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