Date: 1793
"If mind be now in a great degree the ruler of the system, why should it be incapable of extending its empire?"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"the selfish are not governed solely by sensual gratification or the love of gain, but that the desire of eminence and distinction is in different degrees an universal passion"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Reason is the only legislator, and her decrees are irrevocable and uniform."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"We are more interested in the progress of the human mind, than in that of empires."
preview | full record— Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848)
Date: 1794
A fiend may set "reason up for judge / Of our most holy Mystery"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"Bid your minds then sit calmly on their thrones, amidst the hurly burly of critical attacks."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1794
I may act "in obedience to the principle which at present governed me with absolute dominion"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1795
One may have "The throne of Virtue in [his] steadfast heart"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: w. 1795
We may "exert over our own heart a virtuous despotism, and lead our own Passions in triumph"
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)