Date: 1796
"Gaiety was so truly the native growth of the mind of Camilla, that neither care nor affliction could chace it long from its home."
preview | full record— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Date: 1796
"The second was still too young to benefit by my instructions; but in the heart of my eldest I laboured unceasingly to plant those principles which might enable him to avoid the crimes of his parents."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"I suffered not my grief at this circumstance to take root in my mind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"Extreme simplicity prevented her from perceiving the aim to which the monk's insinuations tended; but the excellent morals which she owed to Elvira's care, the solidity and correctness of her understanding, and a strong sense of what was right, implanted in her heart by nature, made her feel tha...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
"Still shall the plaintive lyre essay its powers / To dress the cave of Care with Fancy's flowers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: w. September 1794, 1797
"Wit, that no suffering could impair, / Was thine, and thine whose mental powers / Of force to chase the fiends that tear / From Fancy's hands her budding flowers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"Vice with them is rather an accidental and temporary, than a constitutional and habitual distemper; a noxious plant, which, though found to live and even to thrive in the human mind, is not the natural growth and production of the soil."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1797
"We learn from the Scriptures that it is one main part of the operations of the Holy Spirit, to implant those heavenly principles in the human mind, and to cherish their growth."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1797
"Examine carefully, whether the unchristian tempers, which you would eradicate, are not maintained in vigour by selfishness and pride; and strive to subdue them effectually, by extirpating the roots from which they derive their nutriment."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1798
"When a man enters to it, he is not only to be taught true wisdom, but he is withal, yea, first of all, to be untaught the errors and wickedness that are deep-rooted in his mind, which he hath not only learned by the corrupt conversation of the world with him."
preview | full record— Leighton, Robert (1611-1684)