1830 · Skopia

Showing 12 quotes from 1830

Scientific literature

Although we are mere sojourners on the surface of the planet, chained to a mere point in space, enduring but for a moment of time, the human mind is not only enabled to number worlds beyond the unassisted ken of mortal eye, but to trace the events of indefinite ages before the creation of our race, and is not even withheld from penetrating into the dark secrets of the ocean, or the interior of the solid globe.

Principles of Geology · 1830

★ 5.2

In the desert there is all-and yet nothing…God is there and man is not.

Honore de Balzac

La Comedie humaine · 1830

★ 4.5

It was a dark and stormy night.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Paul Clifford · 1830

★ 3.6

Lecture · Philosophical literature

What experience and history teach is this-that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1830

★ 3.6

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story— The days of our Youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

1830

★ 3.6

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1830

★ 3.6

Lecture · Philosophical literature

It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical arsenal of old Europe.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1830

★ 2.0

Essay · Historical literature

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

1830

★ 2.0

Storm-clouds whirl and storm-clouds scurry; From behind them pale moonlight Flickers where the snowflakes hurry. Dark the sky and dark the night.

Alexander Pushkin

1830

★ 1.9

Laws were made to be broken.

Christopher North

1830

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1830

★ 1.2

Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.

The Red and the Black · 1830

★ 1.1