1837 · Skopia

Showing 28 works across all media from 1837

Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist · 1837

★ 8.1

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1837

★ 7.0

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator · 1837

★ 7.0

The best government is that which governs least.

John L. O'Sullivan

1837

★ 6.9

Nonfiction · Political history

The French Revolution

A History

1837 · 798 pages

Carlyle writes the Revolution in the present tense, as though standing in the crowd. The Bastille falls and the Terror arrives as things still happening, history delivered as thunder rather than explanation.

★ 6.9

Fiction · Children's book

Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

1837 · 200 pages

Andersen wrote his tales instead of collecting them, and put grief where the folk versions put magic. The mermaid pays for legs with her voice and every step feels like walking on knives.

★ 6.7

Selected Poetry

Alexander Pushkin

1837 · 288 pages

Pushkin's clerk in "The Bronze Horseman" loses everything to a flood, curses the tsar's statue, and is chased by it through Petersburg. Every Russian writer since has worked inside the language he made.

★ 6.7

Novels, Tales, Journeys

The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin (Vintage Classics)

Alexander Pushkin

1837 · 512 pages

Pushkin cut Russian storytelling down to speed and clarity. An officer bullies an old countess for the secret of three winning cards, and a young soldier is swept into Pugachev's peasant rebellion.

★ 6.4

Speech · Political speech

Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty.

Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address · 1837

★ 6.3

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar · 1837

★ 5.4

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist · 1837

★ 4.0

Time is the great physician.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple · 1837

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

1837

★ 3.7

A woman's love for us increases The less we love her, sooth to say- She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases; Caught fast, she cannot get away.

Alexander Pushkin

1837

★ 3.6

Essay · Newspaper

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

1837

★ 3.6

We cannot tear out a single page of life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Mauprut · 1837

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

Looking back to it as a sacred instrument carefully and not easily framed; remembering that it was throughout a work of concession and compromise; viewing it as limited to national objects; regarding it as leaving to the people and the States all power not explicitly parted with, I shall endeavor to preserve, protect, and defend it by anxiously referring to its provision for direction in every action.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 3.6

I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar · 1837

★ 3.6

Essay · Magazine

With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1837

★ 3.5

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple · 1837

★ 2.7

Character is higher than intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar · 1837

★ 2.1

Historical literature

O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other.

The French Revolution: A History · 1837

★ 2.0

Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist.

Honore de Balzac

La Comedie humaine · 1837

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

We have no disposition and we disclaim all right to meddle in disputes, whether internal or foreign, that may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their controversies.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The last, perhaps the greatest, of the prominent sources of discord and disaster supposed to lurk in our political condition was the institution of domestic slavery.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 1.9

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple · 1837

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

In all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

The perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves...if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 1.1