
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 550.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 197.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 550.
Source: Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970), p. 13
“The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.”
The Other World (1657)
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
1790s, First Principles of Government (1795)
Context: An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Of Sir Richard Jebb, Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties (1956)
1950s
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 274.