Date: 1780-1?
"The inner judicial proceeding of conscience may be aptly compared with an external court of law."
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Date: 1780-85; in French, 36 vols. 1749-1788
"Is it difficult to perceive that our ideas originate from our senses alone; that the objects we regard as real existences, are those concerning which the senses uniformly give the same testimony."
preview | full record— Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707-1788)
Date: 1780
"Hast thou no failings of thine own, / No ruling passion in thy breast, / That robs thee of thy balmy rest?"
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: 1780
"Once love gets into a man's head, poor reason is brought before a court-martial of the passions, and cashiered without a hearing"
preview | full record— Pilon, Frederick (1750-1788)
Date: 1781
"Well may'st thou bend o'er this congenial sphere; / For Sensibility is sovereign here."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781, 1791
"How vainly the tumultuous passions strive / To shake his breast! they claim no empire there"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1781, second ed. 1787
"Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to pro...
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Date: 1779, 1781
"This doctrine is in itself pernicious as well as false; its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination or overruling principle which cannot be resisted: he that admits it is prepared to comply with every desire that caprice or opportunity shall excite, and to flatter him...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1781
"That he sold so valuable a performance for so small a price, was not to be imputed either to necessity, by which the learned and ingenious are often obliged to submit to very hard conditions, or to avarice, by which the booksellers are frequently incited to oppress that genius by which they are ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1781
"It cannot be said that he made use of his abilities for the direction of his own conduct: an irregular and dissipated manner of life had made him the slave of every passion that happened to be excited by the presence of its object, and that slavery to his passions reciprocally produced a life ir...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)