Explore 156 quotes from the 1790s

Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, edited by Tone Brekke and Jon Mee. Oxford University Press, 2009, letter 19.

Bentham, Jeremy. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Writings on the Poor Laws, edited by Michael Quinn. Vol. 1, Clarendon Press, 2001, app. 2.

Colman, George. "The Heir at Law." The Plays of George Colman the Younger, edited by Peter Tasch. Vol. 2, Routledge, 2023, act 1, sc. 2.

Burney, Frances. Camilla. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Godwin, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Oxford University Press, 2013, bk. 5, ch. 16.

Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

“John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 December 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-09-02-0278.

Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.