Date: February 14, 1860
"But, in England, it is some subaltern spokesman, some worn-out place-hunter, some anonymous nonentity of a so-called Cabinet, that, relying on the donkey power of the Parliamentary mind and the bewildering evaporations of an anonymous press, without making any noise, without incurring any danger...
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: 1867
"As the hart pants after fresh water, so pants his soul after money, the only wealth."
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: 1867
"As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital."
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: 1869
"His mind resembled chiefly the rugged and outstanding mountain, and yet it had characteristics which reminded you likewise of the gentle stream, flowing sweetly through the valley below."
preview | full record— Sprague, William Buell (1795-1876)
Date: 1869
"But, in that case, all that has been done in the modern world to relax the chain on the minds of women, has been a mistake."
preview | full record— Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
Date: October 10, 1869
"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."
preview | full record— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Date: 1871
"[T]he mynd of man first of hyt selfe ys a clene and pure tabul where ys no thyng payntyd or carvyd, but of hyt selfe apt & indyfferent to receyve al maner of pycturys, and image."
preview | full record— Starkey, Thomas (c. 1495-1538)
Date: November 18, 1871
"Does he see, in his mind's eye, (if at this moment Tubby has an eye open in his mind), a rustic porch, early morning, a Janie coming home with a fresh-killed duckling for breakfast, while he puts his nose over the top of the snow-white window-blind, upstairs, and says, 'I'll be down dir...
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Date: 1871
"The police-tinged bourgeois mind naturally figures to itself the International Working Men's Association as acting in the manner of a secret conspiracy, its central body ordering, from time to time, explosions in different countries."
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: August-November, 1871
"[B]ut the mind of Mr. Rossetti is like a glassy mere, broken only by the dive of some water-bird or the hum of winged insects, and brooded over by an atmosphere of insufferable closeness, with a light blue sky above it, sultry depths mirrored within it, and a surface so thickly sown with water-l...
preview | full record— Buchanan, Robert (1841–1901)