1781

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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confessions (Rousseau)

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Topic

Remorse Regrets

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source

Confessions (Rousseau)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Les Confessions [The Confessions]. Aux Deux-Ponts: Chez Sanson Et Compagnie, 1782, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions, translated by Angela Scholar. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 1, bk. 2.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confessions (Rousseau)

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Topic

Credulity

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source

Confessions (Rousseau)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Les Confessions [The Confessions]. Aux Deux-Ponts: Chez Sanson Et Compagnie, 1782, bk. 5.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions, translated by Angela Scholar. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 1, bk. 5.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Topic

Sympathy Moral theory Morality

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 3, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1781, ch. 49.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 3. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 49.

He that runs against Time has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

Samuel Johnson

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Time is undefeated Relentlessness of time Time

Author

Samuel Johnson

Source

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Pope." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Pope." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.

The great source of pleasure is variety. Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect; and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

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Topic

Variety Anticipation Monotony

Author

Samuel Johnson

Source

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Butler." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Topic

Political corruption

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 2, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1781, ch. 21.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 2. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 21.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations in opposition to their inclination and interest.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Anti-imperialism Imperialism

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 3, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1781, ch. 49.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 3. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 49.

To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by eternal ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Samuel Johnson

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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Topic

Organized religion The Church

Author

Samuel Johnson

Source

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Milton." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Milton." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

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Topic

National debt

Author

Alexander Hamilton

Source

Letters of Alexander Hamilton

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. Letter to Robert Morris. 30 Apr. 1781.

Current Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. "From Alexander Hamilton toRobert Morris, [30 April 1781]." Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-1167.