Date: 1773
One's judgment may appear to be "sometimes almost eclipsed by the brilliancy of her imagination"
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1773
"I blot from my memory every other woman; those every-day beauties (as Terence calls them) who have nothing but their sex to recommend them."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1773
Suicide might be allowable if a man "were under no obligations to any law, either of Nature, or Reason, or Society: not to mention the Revealed Will of God, by which all murder is forbidden."
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Date: 1773
"But reasoning with a man under the influence of any passion is like endeavouring to stop a wild horse, who becomes more violent from being pursued."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1783, 1785, 1789
"Indeed, the real seat of all superiority, even of manners, must be placed in the mind: dignified sentiments, superior courage, accompanied with genuine and universal courtesy, are always necessary to constitute the real gentleman; and where these are wanting, it is the greatest absurdity to thin...
preview | full record— Day, Thomas (1748-1789)
Date: 1792
"A thousand ideas seemed crowding upon my mind; but they have expelled each other as quickly as they came, and I scarcely know what to add."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1792
"My passions must be, ought to be, and therefore shall be, under my control; and, being conscious of the purity of my own intentions, I have never thought that the emanations of mind ought to be shackled by the dread of their being misinterpreted."
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Date: 1792
"I must steel my heart, Fairfax, when I go to the encounter; must recapitulate all my wrongs."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1792
"I know it to be folly, and I will endeavour to steel my heart against this as well as other mistakes."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)
Date: 1792
"I have just risen from a conversation which has made a deep impression on my mind."
preview | full record— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)