Date: 1774
"Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, / While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1796
"What an abominable thing is reading? by this means, the mind is put into a hot-house and forced like a pineapple in Europe; and then produces bad fruit."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1796
"Alas! the door is locked and bolted, as the hearts of white men are."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)