Date: w. c. 1800, 1805
"These sudden eruptions of the passions of the multitude, spread, like the lava of a volcano, throughout all France, nor could men of correct judgment, who aimed only at reform of abuses, and a renovation in all the departments, check the fury of the torrent."
preview | full record— Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)
Date: 1845
"No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1845
"Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1845
"I then presented an appearance enough to affect any but a heart of iron."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1854
"They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)