1870 · Skopia

Showing 19 works across all media from 1870

Go West, young man.

Horace Greeley

1870

★ 8.3

Philosophical literature

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

1870

★ 6.9

Fiction · Adventure

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

1870 · 528 pages

The monster ramming ships proves to be an electric submarine whose captain has renounced every nation above. Submarine builders read it as boys, and the first nuclear boat took the Nautilus name.

★ 6.5

Political literature

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of race, color, or previous condition or servitude.

1870

★ 5.5

Poem

And though hard be the task, "Keep a stiff upper lip."

Phoebe Cary

1870

★ 5.4

Speech

When the white men came we gave them lands, and did not wish to hurt them. But the white man drove us back and took our lands. Then the Great Father made us many promises, but they are not kept. He promised to give us large presents, and when they came to us they were small; they seemed to be lost on the way.

Red Cloud

1870

★ 5.2

Novel

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs · 1870

★ 5.1

Essay

We boil at different degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eloquence · 1870

★ 3.8

But the wheel what squeaks the loudest Is the one what gets the grease.

Josh Billings

1870

★ 3.6

Letter

I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details.

Charles Darwin

1870

★ 2.0

Academic journal · Scientific literature

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

1870

★ 1.9

Letter

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Women's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

Queen Victoria

1870

★ 1.9

Speech

The great tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T.H. Huxley

1870

★ 1.9

Speech

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

T.H. Huxley

1870

★ 1.9

Speech

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

T.H. Huxley

1870

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner

1870

★ 1.8

Courtroom speech · Speech

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.... When all other friends desert, he remains.

George Graham Vest

Eulogy of the Dog · 1870

★ 1.8

Novel

Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lothair · 1870

★ 1.2

Novel

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea · 1870

★ 1.2