Explore 262 quotes from the 1850s

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 1, ch. 7.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Plato; or, The Philosopher." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 42.

Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 8.

Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 1.

Marx, Karl. Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, edited by Maurice Dobb. International Publishers, 2022, preface.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King, edited by J. M. Gray. Penguin Classics, 1989, I. 1082.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam, edited by Erik Gray. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, pt. 59, st. 1.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

Brontë, Charlotte. Villette, edited by Helen Cooper. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 36.

Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 36.