Date: 1823
"Not that I affect ignorance- but my head has not many mansions, nor spacious; and I have been obliged to fill it with such cabinet curiosities as it can hold without aching"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"Not that I affect ignorance--but my head has not many mansions, nor spacious; and I have been obliged to fill it with such cabinet curiosities as it can hold without aching"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"But at the desk Tipp was quite another sort of creature. Thence all ideas, that were purely ornamental, were banished"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1823
"His pen was not less erring than his heart"
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: November 1824
"Surely it is no exaggeration to say that no external advantage is to be compared with that purification of the intellectual eye which gives us to contemplate the infinite wealth of the mental world, all the hoarded treasures of its primeval dynasties, all the shapeless ore of its yet unexplored ...
preview | full record— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)
Date: 1825
"In this respect his mind resembled a well arranged volume; in which every subject forms a separate section, and each view of that subject a separate page."
preview | full record— Dwight, Sereno Edwards (1786-1850) and William Theodore Dwight (1795-1865)
Date: March, 1826
"And both these effects are of equal use to human life; for the mind of man is like the sea, which is neither agreeable to the beholder nor the voyager, in a calm or in a storm, but is so to both when a little agitated by gentle gales; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions or affe...
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Date: 1829
"Death is only the removal of an immortal soul from dead matter, which many have considered merely as a clog to the soul."
preview | full record— Balfour, Walter (1776-1852)
Date: 1829
"And if the man is as complete without the body, as he is without the house he resides in, the immortal soul ought to be thankful when it gets quit of the body."
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Date: 1830
"But mind is not merely this abstractly simple being equivalent to light, which was how it was considered when the simplicity of the soul in contrast to the composite nature of the body was under discussion."
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