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Date: January 19, 1791
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: January 19, 1791
"You know them but at a distance, on the statements of those who always flatter the reigning power, and who, amidst their representations of the grievances, inflame your minds against those who are oppressed. These are amongst the effects of unremitted labour, when men exhaust their attention, bu...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1792
"The King of England steels his heart against us"
preview | full record— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)
Date: 1794
"Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! / In chains of the mind locked up, / Like fetters of ice shrinking together."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1796
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. October, 1796; 1810
"Conscious the mortal stamp is on thy breast."
preview | full record— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Date: 1801
A strenuous mind may have "master passions" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
The heart may bear a "fair image"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
A cloud may darkly over one's fancy play
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
Doubts and fears may "Contend for empire and distract the mind"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
