Date: December 1790
"But it was the poor man with only his native dignity who was thus oppressed – and only metaphysical sophists and cold mathematicians can discern this insubstantial form; it is a work of abstraction – and a gentleman of lively imagination must borrow some drapery from fancy before he can love or ...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1791
"It can be accounted for only in this way; that by reading and meditation, and a very close inspection of life, he had accumulated a great fund of miscellaneous knowledge, which, by a peculiar promptitude of mind, was ever ready at his call, and which he had constantly accustomed himself to cloth...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1792
"Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it--if I may so express myself--swathed from their birth, seldom exert that locomotive faculty or body of mind"
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1797
In William Collins's "endeavours to embody the fleeting forms of mind, and clothe them with correspondent imagery, he is not infrequently obscure."
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)