Play · Tragic playYou have deeply ventured; But all must do so who would greatly win.Lord Byron1821★ 7.1
Play · Tragic playWherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.Heinrich Heine1821★ 6.9
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt1821★ 4.3
Magazine · Autobiography and memoirThou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium.Thomas De QuinceyLondon Magazine · 1821★ 3.8
PoemLove and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine— A sad, sour, sober beverage—by time Is sharpen'd from its high celestial flavour, Down to a very homely household savour.Lord ByronDon Juan · 1821★ 3.7
Magazine · Autobiography and memoirA duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.Thomas De QuinceyLondon Magazine · 1821★ 3.7
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingThe people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.John MarshallCohens v. Virginia · 1821★ 3.6
PoemA steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.George Canning1821★ 3.5
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.William HazlittThe Indian Jugglers · 1821★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechWherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.John Quincy Adams1821★ 3.5
PoemIn her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love.Lord ByronDon Juan · 1821★ 2.1
Speech · Political speechIn our whole system, national and State, we have shunned all the defects which unceasingly preyed on the vitals and destroyed the ancient Republics.James MonroeSecond Inaugural Address of James Monroe · 1821★ 2.1
PoemThe isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.Lord ByronDon Juan · 1821★ 2.0
LetterAnd even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In short, the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.Thomas JeffersonLetter to John Adams, 1821 · 1821★ 2.0
Speech · Political speechThere is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable, and that the movement in all its branches will exhibit such a degree of order and harmony as to command the admiration and respect of the civilized world.James MonroeSecond Inaugural Address of James Monroe · 1821★ 2.0
Essay · Philosophical literatureThus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1821★ 1.9
Essay · Economic literatureIn the first stone which he flings at the wild animals he pursues, in the first stick that he seizes to strike down the fruit which hangs above his reach, we see the appropriation of one article for the purpose of aiding in the acquisition of another, and thus discover the origin of capital.Robert Torrens1821★ 1.8
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