1741

Showing 11 works across all media from 1741

Classical · Baroque music

Goldberg Variations

Johann Sebastian Bach and Glenn Gould

1741

The pianist Glenn Gould plays it fast and dry and hums audibly throughout, which the engineers could never get him to stop doing.

★ 9.6

Oratorio · Baroque music

Messiah

George Frideric Handel and Christopher Hogwood

1741

Handel wrote it for a Dublin charity concert, and the hall asked women to come without hoops in their skirts so more people could fit.

★ 9.1

Nonfiction · Religious

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Writings

Jonathan Edwards

1741 · 208 pages

Standing before a Connecticut congregation in 1741, Edwards said God holds sinners over hell as one holds a spider over a fire. The moaning grew so loud he had to pause.

★ 6.1

Sermon · Religious literature

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God · 1741

★ 5.3

Essay

In contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest.

David Hume

Essays, Moral and Political · 1741

★ 4.4

Essay

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty.

David Hume

1741

★ 3.9

Essay

The heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions.

David Hume

1741

★ 3.9

Almanac

If evils come not, Then our fears are vain; And if they do, Fear but augments the pain.

Benjamin Franklin

1741

★ 3.8

Essay

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation.

David Hume

1741

★ 3.7

Almanac

E’er you remark another’s sin, bid your own conscience look within.

Benjamin Franklin

1741

★ 2.2

Almanac

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

1741

★ 2.2