Date: 1800
" The abrupt recovery of what had been deemed irretrievable, would naturally produce this effect upon a mind of a certain texture"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"I fear my heart would droop as often as that other image should occur to my fancy"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
The mind may be in "too great a tumult for deliberation and forecast"
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
The soul may be thrown into tumults
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Her mind was indeed more fertile than my own in those topics which take away its keenest edge from affliction."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"I merely write to allay those tumults which our necessary separation produces; to aid me in calling up a little patience, till the time arrives, when our persons, like our minds, shall be united forever."
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Date: 1820
"When I meet with a proposition beyond finite comprehension, I abandon it as I do a weight which human strength cannot lift, and I think ignorance, in these cases, is truly the softest pillow on which I can lay my head."
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