1799

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First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Henry Lee III

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Topic

George Washington

Author

Henry Lee III

Source

Funeral Oration on the death of General Washington

Medium

Speech

Genre

Funeral oration

Statement Type

Eulogy

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lee, Henry. Funeral oration on the death of General Washington. 26 Dec. 1799, German Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Francisco Goya

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Topic

Reason and emotion Reason Dreams

Author

Francisco Goya

Source

Los Caprichos

Language

Spanish

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Goya, Francisco. Los Caprichos. 1799, plate 43, title.

Current Citation

Goya, Francisco. Los Caprichos. Dover Publications, 1969, plate 43, title.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

William Blake

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Topic

Trees Nature Relativism

Author

William Blake

Source

Letters of William Blake

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Blake, William. "To Rev. Dr. Tussler." 23 Aug. 1799.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "[To] Revd Dr Tusler, 23 Aug. 1799." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

The devil False humility Pride

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Devil's Thoughts

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Devil's Thoughts." Morning Post, 6 Sept. 1799, I. 23.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Devil's Thoughts." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems, edited by William Keach. Penguin Classics, 1997, I. 23.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

Power of love Love

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Love (Coleridge)

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie." Morning Post, 21 Dec. 1799, I. 1.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Love (1799)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

Tecumseh

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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Topic

US and Native American relations Native Americans

Speaker

Tecumseh

Source

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tecumseh. 1799. Tribal councils with White Men. Urbana, Ohio, USA.

Current Citation

Tecumseh. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 1.

It is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms.

Hannah More

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Topic

Oppression of women Gender relations Patriarchy

Author

Hannah More

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. Vol. 1, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1799, ch. 1.

What millions died-that Caesar might be great!

Thomas Campbell

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Topic

Great man theory of history

Author

Thomas Campbell

Source

Pleasures of Hope

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Campbell, Thomas. "Pleasures of Hope, Part II." The Pleasures of Hope; With Other Poems. Edinburgh: Jones Bull, c. 1800.

The God of nature never intended that Ireland should be a province, and by God she never will.

Thomas Goold

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Topic

Self-determination Ireland Countries

Speaker

Thomas Goold

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Goold, Thomas. An Address to the People of Ireland on the Subject of the Projected Union. Dublin: J. Moore, 1799.

Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?

Hannah More

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

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Topic

Original sin Human nature

Author

Hannah More

Source

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. Vol. 1, London T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1799, ch. 2.