Date: 1760
"If thus a golden crown can steel his heart, / O may I ne'er behold him while a king!"
preview | full record— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1765
"Mere Affectation vainly would assert / A steady, lasting empire o'er the heart"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1766
"So get these lines, and what they do evince, / By heart; and they may give you some impressions, / Both of salvation and of your transgressions;"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: 1767
God seals the truth on "our happy hearts"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: w. 1774-6, 1921
"As to the brutes it [whipping] inflicts no wound on their mind, whose Natures seem made to bear it, and whose sufferings are not attended with shame or pain beyond the present moment."
preview | full record— Schaw, Janet (c. 1731-c. 1801)
Date: 1776
"But the greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that they should be not only imagined but proved: and this they shall now be, in so far as natural probability, aided by whatever support it may be thought to receive from the character of the narrator, can gain credence, for the indica...
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Date: 1777
"Parents may, perhaps, paint it to themselves: they may see (through the mirror of a sympathetic fancy) the poor widow receiving her child from the healing hand of the prophet--a child fresh blooming in the beauties of a second birth."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1782
"Disdainful of those little arts that bind, / In slavish trammels, the inferior mind, / No stage finesse her action shall disgrace, / To trick a generous audience out of praise; / But Truth, and Nature, shall still plead her cause, / And win the tribute of a just applause."
preview | full record— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)
Date: 1787
"Virtue sleeps / While all the finest faculties of mind / Rust, like the iron long unus'd"
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1788
"Those arts that ornament the mind, as geography, arithmetic, —"
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud