BiographyMost schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1769★ 3.8
BiographyIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1769★ 3.7
Pamphlet · Political literatureIt is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public, to be the most anxious for its welfare.Edmund Burke1769★ 3.6
Treatise · Legal writingAll presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England · 1769★ 3.6
Treatise · Legal writingThe offense of riding or going armed, with dangerous or unusual weapons, is a crime against the public peace, by terrifying the good people of the land.William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England · 1769★ 1.9
Open letter · Letter · Political literatureWe owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.Junius1769★ 1.8
Treatise · Legal writingIn all tyrannical governments, the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England · 1769★ 1.1
LectureIf you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.Joshua Reynolds1769★ 1.0
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