Hymn · SongAmazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.John NewtonAmazing Grace · 1779★ 6.9
BiographyClaret is the liquor for the boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1779★ 5.4
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.Thomas Jefferson1779★ 5.4
Personal journalI am convinced that a person doesn't only love himself in others, he also hates himself in others.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg1779★ 4.4
Play · Satire (play) · SatireCertainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.Richard Brinsley SheridanThe Critic · 1779★ 3.6
Play · Satire (play) · SatireThe number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.Richard Brinsley SheridanThe Critic · 1779★ 3.5
BiographyWords being arbitrary must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought.Samuel JohnsonLives of the Most Eminent English Poets · 1779★ 3.5
Hymn · SongGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.William CowperLight Shining out of Darkness · 1779★ 3.5
Play · Satire (play) · SatireThere is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.Richard Brinsley SheridanThe Critic · 1779★ 1.9