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power of pleasing; as the needle touched by the loadstone acquires polarity, and retains it long after the loadstone is withdrawn."
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Date: 1799
"His emotion seemed to communicate itself, with an electrical rapidity, to my heart."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: w. 1796, 1799
"My soul was held up by the power of God, as the needle by the loadstone, and I did by faith, with joy draw water out of these wells of salvation."
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Date: 1800
Thoughts may be kept in "perpetual motion"
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Date: 1800
"A sort of electrical sympathy pervaded my companion, and terror and anguish were strongly manifested in the glances which she sometimes stole at me."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)