1796

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Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.

George Washington

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Partisan politics Political parties American politics

Author

George Washington

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Washington's Farewell Address Presidential Farewell Address

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Speech

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English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

Current Citation

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?

Robert Burns

Auld Lang Syne

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Remembering the past

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Robert Burns

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Auld Lang Syne

Medium

Poem

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English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Burns, Robert. Quoted in "Auld Lang Syne." Scots Musical Museum. Written by James Johnson. 1796, st. 1.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Auld Lang Syne." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.

George Washington

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Isolationism Foreign policy International politics American politics

Author

George Washington

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English

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1796 1790s 18th century

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Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

Current Citation

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

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School of hard knocks Learning from mistakes

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Letters of Edmund Burke

Medium

Open letter Letter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little Political connection as possible.

George Washington

Washington's Farewell Address

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American foreign policy International politics Political neutrality

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George Washington

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English

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1796 1790s 18th century

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Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

Current Citation

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

Observe good faith and justice toward all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all... The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

George Washington

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American foreign policy International politics Political neutrality

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George Washington

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1796 1790s 18th century

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Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

Current Citation

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

Avoid the necessity of those overgrown Military establishments, which under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.

George Washington

Washington's Farewell Address

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Military industrial complex

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George Washington

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English

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1796 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

Current Citation

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

George Washington

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Foreign policy International politics

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George Washington

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1796 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

Current Citation

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Sleep and death Sleep The human condition

Author

Nicolas Chamfort

Source

Maximes et Pensées

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.

Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives.

Edmund Burke

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Manners Custom and convention

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Edmund Burke

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Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France

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Open letter Letter

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Political literature

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Edmund Burke

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Custom and convention Law

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Edmund Burke

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Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

In my lifetime I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; thanks to Montesquieu, I even know that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare that I have never in my life met him; if he exists, he exists unknown to me.

Joseph de Maistre

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Topic

The universal vs. the particular Nature of man

Author

Joseph de Maistre

Source

Considerations on France

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Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Maistre, Joseph. "De l'influence divine dans les constitutions politiques [On Divine Influence in Political Constitutions]." Considérations sur la France [Considerations on France]. Paris, 1796.

Current Citation

Maistre, Joseph. "On Divine Influence in Political Constitutions." Considerations on France, edited by Richard A. Lebrun. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

We aim at something more sublime and more equitable-the common good, or the community of goods... We demand, we would have, the communal enjoyment of the fruits which are for everyone.

Sylvain Marechal

Manifesto of the Equals

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Redistribution of wealth Communism

Author

Sylvain Marechal

Source

Manifesto of the Equals

Genre

Political literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Sylvain, Marechal. Quoted in "Manifeste des Egaux [Manifesto of the Equals]." Histoire de la conspiration pour Egalite dite de Babeuf, written by Phillipe Buonarotti. Bruxelles: A la librairie Romantique, 1828.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.

George Washington

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American experiment American government

Author

George Washington

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1796 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

Current Citation

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

Let no one think that he can conquer the first impressions of his youth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Effects of childhood Personal growth Childhood

Speaker

Stranger

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]. Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1785-1786, bk. 2, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship." Goethe: The Collected Works, edited and translated by Eric A. Blackall. Vol. 9, Princeton University Press, 1995, bk. 2, ch. 9.

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because, in committing it, the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Capital punishment Deterrence (theory of punishment)

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Letter

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. London: Joseph Johnson, 1796, letter 19.

Current Citation

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

Of all days, the one most surely wasted is the one on which one has not laughed.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Laughter

Author

Nicolas Chamfort

Source

Maximes et Pensées

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Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 48.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'its the mode of the day: but the acknowledgement passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

Frances Burney

Camilla

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Self-criticism Self-improvement

Speaker

Mrs. Arlbery

Author

Frances Burney

Source

Camilla

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Burney, Frances. Camilla. London: T. Payne and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796.

Current Citation

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

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Intelligence Ideas

Author

Nicolas Chamfort

Source

Maximes et Pensées

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 29.