1849

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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Topic

Appearance vs. reality Dreams

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Source

A Dream within a Dream The Flag of Our Union

Medium

Poem Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "A Dream Within a Dream." The Flag of Our Union, 31 March 1849, I. 10.

Current Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "A Dream Within a Dream." Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick Quinn. Library of America, 1984, l. 10.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Karr

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Topic

Change

Author

Alphonse Karr

Source

Les Guepes

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

French

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Karr, Alphonse. Les Guepes. Au Bureau du Figaro, c. 1849.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also-He above all-is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

Henri-Frederic Amiel

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Topic

Alienation

Author

Henri-Frederic Amiel

Source

Journals of Henri Frederic Amiel

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Amiel, Henri-Frederic. Journal entry. 27 May 1849.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

Lucretia Mott

Discourse on Woman

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Topic

Marriage and law Marriage

Speaker

Lucretia Mott

Source

Discourse on Woman

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mott, Lucretia. "Discourse on Woman." 17 Dec. 1849, Philadelphia's Assembly Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Mott, Lucretia. "Lucretia Mott: Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?" Great Speeches by American Women, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2007.

Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one: what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

Thomas Carlyle

On the discipline of economics.

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Topic

Economics

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question." Fraser's Magazine, Dec. 1849.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "The Nigger Question." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

New-York Daily Tribune

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Topic

Being in love Love

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Source

Annabel Lee New-York Daily Tribune

Medium

Poem Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Annabel Lee." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 Oct. 1849, l. 9.

Current Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Annabel Lee." Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick Quinn. Library of America, 1984, l. 9.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss-an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.-is sure to be noticed.

Soren Kierkegaard

Sickness Unto Death

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Topic

Losing oneself Loss Giving up

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Sickness Unto Death

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Anti-Climacus]. Sygdommen til Døden [The Sickness unto Death]. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzels Forlag, 1849.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Sickness unto Death, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1989.

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw.

Edgar Allan Poe

Scribner's Monthly

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Topic

Feeling different

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Source

Alone Scribner's Monthly

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Alone." Scribner's Monthly, Sept. 1875, I. 1.

Current Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Alone." Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984, I. 1.

He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.

Jeremy Bentham

In reference to James Mill, the father of John Stuart Mill.

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Topic

Ruling class Working class Class conflict

Speaker

Jeremy Bentham

Author

Caroline Fox

Source

Journals of Caroline Fox

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. Quoted in Memories of Old Friends, being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, edited by H. N. Pym. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1882. Originally written as a journal entry dated 7 Aug. 1849.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love,
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

Edgar Allan Poe

New-York Daily Tribune

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Topic

Young love True love Love

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Source

Annabel Lee New-York Daily Tribune

Medium

Poem Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Annabel Lee." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 Oct. 1849, st. 2.

Current Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Annabel Lee." Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984, st. 2.

I entered the world a slave-in the midst of a country whose most honoured writings declare that all men have a right to liberty.

Henry Box Brown

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Topic

Slavery Equality American hypocrisy America

Author

Henry Box Brown

Source

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

Genre

Slave narrative Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of Henry Box Brown. Boston: Brown & Stearns, 1849.

Current Citation

Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Live of Henry Box Brown. Dover Publications, 2015.

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From Angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
'Peace on the earth, good will to man
From Heaven's all gracious King,'
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Edmund Sears

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

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Topic

Jesus's birth

Author

Edmund Sears

Source

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sears, Edmund. "That Glorious Song of Old." The Christian Register, 1849, I. 1.

A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Henry David Thoreau

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Topic

Good writing Writing

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Genre

Travel writing

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston/Cambridge: James Munroe and Co., 1849.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, edited by Carl F. Hovde and William L. Howarth, and Elizabeth Hall Witherell. Princeton University Press, 2004.

In all disputes between conflicting governments it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral, while our geographical position, the genius of our institutions and our people, the advancing spirit of civilization, and, above all, the dictates of religion direct us to the cultivation of peaceful and friendly relations with all other powers.

Zachary Taylor

Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor

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Topic

Non-intervention American foreign policy American politics

Speaker

Zachary Taylor

Source

Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Taylor, Zachary. "Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1849, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The World in which we live and move
Outlasts aversion, outlasts love.
Outlasts each effort, interest, hope,
Remorse, grief, joy.

Matthew Arnold

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Topic

The world

Author

Matthew Arnold

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Resignation." The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1849, I. 213.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Resignation." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 213.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Graziella

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Topic

Selflessness Love Human nature

Author

Alphonse de Lamartine

Source

Graziella

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

De Lamartine, Alphonse. "Graziella." Les Confidences, 1849.

Current Citation

De Lamartine, Alphonse. Graziella, translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie. University of Minnesota Press, 2018, pt. 4, ch. 5.

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Topic

Thinking for oneself Quotations

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. May 1849.

Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life... Then in the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

Discourse on Woman

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Topic

Women's rights Women's equality

Speaker

Lucretia Mott

Source

Discourse on Woman

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mott, Lucretia. "Discourse on Woman." 17 Dec. 1849, Philadelphia's Assembly Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Mott, Lucretia. "Lucretia Mott: Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?" Great Speeches by American Women, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2007.