1845 · Skopia

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Theses on Feurbach · 1845

★ 7.1

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

Edgar Allan Poe

New York Evening Mirror · 1845

★ 6.9

Our manifest destiny [is] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

John L. O'Sullivan

1845

★ 5.2

Poem · Newspaper

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door! Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Edgar Allan Poe

New York Evening Mirror · 1845

★ 3.9

Autobiography and memoir

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass · 1845

★ 3.9

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Waif: A Collection of Poems · 1845

★ 3.7

Novel

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil · 1845

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

James K. Polk

Inaugural Address of James K. Polk · 1845

★ 3.6

Poem

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

John Clare

1845

★ 3.5

Novel

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil · 1845

★ 2.7

Philosophical literature

History is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.

Karl Marx

The Holy Family · 1845

★ 2.0

Economic literature · Political literature

Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them…"If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying-pan, you can take a walk into the fire."

Friedrich Engels

The Condition of the Working Class in England · 1845

★ 1.9

No furniture so charming as books.

Sydney Smith

1845

★ 1.9

Biography

That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present.

Sydney Smith

1845

★ 1.9

Novel

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws... The rich and the poor.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil · 1845

★ 1.9

The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; but they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation... A brief quarter of a century has seen these wonderful changes wrought; and at the bottom of them all lies this beautiful, well-prized, ready, and efficient implement, the American axe!

James Fenimore Cooper

The Chainbearer · 1845

★ 1.9

Poem

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

The Present Crisis · 1845

★ 1.9

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... That in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

John Quincy Adams

1845

★ 1.9

Poem

America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

1845

★ 1.9

Poem

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather Resemble copper wire, or brass, Which gets the narrower by going farther!

Thomas Hood

1845

★ 1.9

Did you ever hear my definition of marriage? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

1845

★ 1.8

Speech · Political speech

While he executes the laws with an impartial hand, shrinks from no proper responsibility, and faithfully carries out in the executive department of the Government the principles and policy of those who have chosen him, he should not be unmindful that our fellow-citizens who have differed with him in opinion are entitled to the full and free exercise of their opinions and judgments, and that the rights of all are entitled to respect and regard.

James K. Polk

Inaugural Address of James K. Polk · 1845

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

It is a source of deep regret that in some sections of our country misguided persons have occasionally indulged in schemes and agitations whose object is the destruction of domestic institutions existing in other sections—institutions which existed at the adoption of the Constitution and were recognized and protected by it.

James K. Polk

Inaugural Address of James K. Polk · 1845

★ 1.1

That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.

Sydney Smith

1845

★ 1.1