Date: 1719
"I call'd a Council, that is to say, in my Thoughts, whether I should take back the Raft, but this appear'd impracticable."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"It is as impossible as needless, to set down the innumerable Crowd of Thoughts that whirl'd through that great Thorowfair of the Brain, the Memory, in this Night's Time."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
One may have "several times loud Calls from [his] Reason and [his] more composed Judgment to go home"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: Published serially, 1765-1770
"[A]nd then it was that my Sins came crowding into my Mind, and I believe I was the only Person of the Ship's Company who trembled"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 2000
"It's the medium-sized thoughts that jump ship in an emergency."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)