Explore 870 quotes from the 18th century

Madison, James. "Political Essays: Charters and Parties; January 19 and 23, 1792." Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.

Blake, William. "Never Pain to Tell Thy Love." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Horace Mann." Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George Lam. Vol. 23, Yale University Press, 1967.

Adams, John. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Love (1799)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 3.

Adams, Abigail. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects, edited by W. P. D. Wightman. Liberty Fund, 1982, sect. 3, para. 3.

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, introduction, sec. 3.

Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2.

Burke, Edmund. "Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll at Bristol (3 November 1774)." Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.