Date: 1796
"Conscience is formally deposed from its dominion over the mind."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1797-8, 1799
"Conscience is practical reason holding the human being's duty before him for his acquittal or condemnation in every case that comes under a law."
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Date: 1797-8, 1799
"Consciousness of an inner court in the human being ('before which his thoughts accuse or excuse one another') is conscience."
preview | full record— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Date: 1798
"Women have a frame of body more delicate and susceptible of impression than men, and, in proportion as they receive a less intellectual education, are more unreservedly under the empire of feeling."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"Wounded affection, wounded pride, all those principles which hold absolute empire in the purest and loftiest minds, urged her to still further experiments to recover her influence, and to a still more poignant desparation, long after reason would have directed her to desist, and resolutely call ...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"But a connection more memorable originated about this time, between Mary and a person of her own sex, for whom she contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind."
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Date: w. 1796, 1799
"Notwithstanding the law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
preview | full record— Osborn, Sarah (1714-1796)