1760

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God is always with the strongest battalions.

Frederick the Great

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Topic

God's favor

Author

Frederick the Great

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

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Citation

Frederick the Great. Letter to the Duchess Luise Dorothea von Gotha. 8 May 1760.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

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Topic

Law

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

A Tract on the Popery Laws

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. A Tract on the Popery Laws. c. 1760, ch. 3, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Tract on the Popery Laws." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, ch. 3, pt. 1.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy

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Topic

Confirmation bias Cognitive biases

Author

Laurence Sterne

Source

Tristram Shandy

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol. 2, London: Ann Ward, 1760, ch. 19.

Current Citation

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 19.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

John Adams

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Topic

Writing

Author

John Adams

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Adams, John. Diary entry. 14 Nov. 1760.

Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

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Topic

Courage Forgiveness

Author

Laurence Sterne

Language

English

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sterne, Laurence. The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Vol. 1, London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1760, no. 12.