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Date: 1799

"My imagination was incessantly pursued by the image of this youth, perishing alone, and in obscurity; calling on the name of distant friends, or invoking, ineffectually, the succour of those who are near"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1799

"[M]y heart was the seat of commiseration and horror"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1799

"Pictures of their own distress, or of that of their neighbours, were exhibited in all the hues which imagination can annex to pestilence and poverty."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1799

"I reflected that the source of all energy, and even of life, is seated in the thought"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1800

"My sensibility, if not extinguished, was blunted"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1800

"My heart drooped and my tongue faultered, at this sight"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1800

"Ellis was by no means hard of heart"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1800

"The excursions of my fancy had sometimes carried me beyond the bounds prescribed by my situation, but they were, nevertheless, limited to that field to which I had once some prospect of acquiring a title"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1800

"My thoughts have ever hovered over the images of wife and children with more delight than over any other images"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1800

Ideas may assume shapes and keep an "immoveable place" in the mind and diffuse "around them an ineffable complacency."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.