PoemMan was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.William Blake1805★ 5.4
PoemThere is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.William Blake1805★ 3.7
Philosophical literatureThere are two sorts of laws, those of absolute equity and universality, and the bizarre ones which owe their autonomy only to blindness or to the force of circumstance. The latter merely cover the man who is breaking them with a passing disgrace, which time then transfers to the judges and the nations, on whom it remains forever.Denis Diderot1805★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechThe press, confined to truth, needs no other legal restraint; the public judgment will correct false reasonings and opinions, on a full hearing of all parties; and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press and its demoralizing licentiousness.Thomas JeffersonSecond Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson · 1805★ 2.1
PoemO Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.Sir Walter ScottThe Lady of Minstrel · 1805★ 1.9
Speech · Political speechI shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life.Thomas JeffersonSecond Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson · 1805★ 1.3
EssayIn looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.Samuel Taylor Coleridge1805★ 1.0
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