Date: 1792
"The variety of nature is such, that new objects, and new combinations of them, are continually adding something to our fund, and inlarging our collection: while the same kind of object occurring frequently, is seen under various shapes; and makes us, if I may so speak, more learned in nature."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1794
"As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in the way of beginning learning for himself afterwards."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"As the bullion of which money is made, is the king's property, even before it is struck into coin, and before it visibly bears the royal image and superscription; so the unregenerate elect are God's own heritage, though they do not appear to be such, until the Holy Spirit has made them pass thro...
preview | full record— Toplady, Augustus (1740-1771)
Date: 1796
"In London much false Wit is sold, / As Sheffield coin is pass'd for gold!"
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1796
"While his fancy coined these ideas, he paced his cell with a disordered air."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1799
"The debt that lies on your heart, pay in the heart's coin, when you please. At present I am in no want of money"
preview | full record— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1802
"[H]e did boast he had made his fortune by the coinage of his own brain, by Radix Rheno, I did think he laid, by coining ready rhino"
preview | full record— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)
Date: 1803
"But, wishing to enrich me more, to fill / My mind with treasure, led'st me far away / From city din to deep retreats, to banks / And streams Aonian, and, with free consent, / Didst place me happy at Apollo's side."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1805
"Your Worth and Talents will unfold, / Richer than Needlework of Gold; / The native treasures of the soul, / True--as the Needle to the Pole."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1813
"No, my generous friend, the Admiral's heart is gold, and I might coin it"
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)