Date: 1678
"This righteousness, I say, true faith accepteth, under the skirt of which, the soul being shrouded, and by it presented as spotless before God, it is accepted, and acquit from condemnation."
preview | full record— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)
Date: 1692
"This Letter (said Brook) shews that the force of Affectation draws a Veil before the Judgment, which else would govern Fancy according to Sense, and Reason."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1788
"Emmeline would then have taken him; but she said no; and sitting down on the ground, held him in her lap, till Barret who had seen her from a window, came out and took him from her; to which, as to a thing usual, she consented, and then walked calmly home with Emmeline, who, extremely discompose...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1860
"The stricken man lay for some time with his eyes fixed on the letter, as if he were trying to knit up his thoughts by its help."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1992
"Patrick had tried to sleep, but tattered rags of speed still trailed through his consciousness and kept him charging forward."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)