1799 · Skopia

Showing 11 works across all media from 1799

The Intervention of the Sabine Women

1799 · Louvre, Paris

Hersilia throws herself between the two armies with her arms out. David painted it after the Terror, arguing for reconciliation instead of oaths.

★ 7.1

Speech · Funeral oration

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Henry Lee III

1799

★ 6.9

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Francisco de Goya

1799

★ 3.8

Poem

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1799

★ 3.7

Letter

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

William Blake

1799

★ 3.7

Poem

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1799

★ 3.6

Speech

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

Tecumseh

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee · 1799

★ 3.6

Political literature

It is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms.

Hannah More

1799

★ 3.5

Poem

What millions died-that Caesar might be great!

Thomas Campbell

1799

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The God of nature never intended that Ireland should be a province, and by God she never will.

Thomas Goold

1799

★ 1.9

Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?

Hannah More

Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education · 1799

★ 1.8