LetterWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment... Inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.Thomas Jefferson1786★ 6.2
SpeechIf we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or being slaves.Jupiter Hammon1786★ 6.1
NovelTo know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us even in silence-this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship · 1786★ 4.5
PoemO Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!Robert Burns1786★ 3.6
PoemO Life! how pleasant in thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like school-boys at th' expected warning, To joy and play.Robert Burns1786★ 3.5
LectureThe Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; So strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps, no longer exists.William Jones1786★ 3.5
NovelOne ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship · 1786★ 2.8
LetterOur liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.Thomas Jefferson1786★ 2.1
BiographyMelody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1786★ 2.1
Essay · MagazineThe game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it.Benjamin Franklin1786★ 1.2
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