-
Literary Period
-
Age of Sensibility (188)
-
Early Modern (188)
-
Eighteenth Century (188)
-
Industrial Revolution
-
Long Eighteenth Century
-
Romantic (31)
-
-
Metaphor Category
-
Uncategorized
-
Impressions (16)
-
Architecture (12)
-
Population (10)
-
Body (9)
-
Container (9)
-
Motion (9)
-
Light (8)
-
Optics (8)
-
Government (7)
-
-
Genre
-
Prose
-
Letter (19)
-
Translation (5)
-
- Gender of Author
- Nationality of Author
- Politics of Author
- Religion of Author
AND
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Industrial Revolution"
returned 188 results(s) in 0.003 seconds
Date: 1774
"A learned parson, rusting in his cell, at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what; and yet, unfortunately, h...
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"As you found your brain considerably affected by the cold, you were very prudent not to turn it to poetry in that situation; and not less judicious in declining the borrowed aid of a stove, whose fumigation, instead of inspiration, would at best have produced what Mr. Pope calls a souterkin<...
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"I will show your letter to Duval, by way of justification for not answering his challenge; and I think he must allow the validity of it; for a frozen brain is as unfit to answer a challenge in poetry, as a blunt sword is for a single combat."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"His virtues and his vices, his reason and his passions, did not blend themselves by a gradation of tints, but formed a shining and sudden contrast. Here the darkest, there the most splendid colors; and both rendered more shining from their proximity."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1774
"Do not marry a fool; he is the most intractable of all animals; he is led by his passions and caprices, and is incapable of hearing the voice of reason."
preview | full record— Gregory, John (1724-1773)
Date: 1775
"I am rather inclined to think that, though the subject is beyond our comprehension at present, that man does not consist of two principles, so essentially different from one another as matter and spirit, which are always described as having not one common property, by means of which they can aff...
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Date: 1775
"That vibrations corresponding to all the varieties of sensations and ideas that ever take place in any human, mind may take place in the same brain at the same time, can create no difficulty to any person who considers the capacity of the air itself to transmit different vibrations, witho...
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Date: 1775
"That vibrations [in the air above London] which are nearly isochronous affect and modify one another, so as to become perfectly so, sufficiently corresponds to the phænomena of ideas, and therefore makes no objection to this doctrine."
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Date: 1775
"For this reason a bow of any kind, that has been bent, does not restore itself to the same form that it had before, but leans a little to the other, in consequence of the spheres of attraction and repulsion belonging to the several particles having been altered by the change of their situation. ...
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Date: 1775
"Also those phenomena in nature which depend upon gravity, electricity, &c. are no less various and complex; and the more we know of nature, the more particular facts, and particular laws, we are able to reduce to simple and general laws: insomuch that now it does not appear impossible, but that,...
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
