1814

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And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there-
O! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!

Francis Scott Key

The Star-Spangled Banner

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Topic

American flag

Author

Francis Scott Key

Source

The Star-Spangled Banner

Medium

Song

Language

Engish

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Key, Francis Scott. "Defence of Fort M'Henry." Analectic Magazine, 1814.

Current Citation

Key, Francis Scott. The Star-Spangled Banner. Composed by John Stafford Smith. Became official national anthem of the United States on March 3, 1931.

Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

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Topic

Decline of democracy Democracy Political theory Politics

Author

John Adams

Source

Letters of John Adams

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Adams, John. Letter to John Taylor. 17 Dec. 1814.

Current Citation

Adams, John. “From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6371.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

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Topic

Cities Morality

Speaker

Edmund Bertram

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Mansfield Park

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 9.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

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Topic

Money and happiness Wealth

Speaker

Mary Crawford

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Mansfield Park

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 2, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 22.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 22.

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

The good Beauty

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language

English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "On the Principles of Genial Criticism Concerning the Fine Arts." Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. Bristol, Aug. and Sept. 1814.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 11, pt. 1: Shorter Works and Fragments, edited by Kathleen Coburn. Princeton University Press, 2019.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom only common sense reduced to calculus.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Topic

Probability Statistics Mathematics

Author

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Source

Theorie Analytique des Probabilites

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

French

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere, one is intimate with him by instinct.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

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Topic

Shakespeare

Speaker

Henry Crawford

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Mansfield Park

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 34.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 34.