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A collection of notable quotations from a variety of Early Modern Era individuals. See the Guide Letter Author Find Selected -all- # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z -all- Abernethy, George (1) Adams, Abigail (2) Adams, John (98) Adams, John Quincy (11) Adams, Samuel (59) Addison, Joseph (20) Allen, Ethan (1) Ames, Fisher (9) Arbuthnot, John (11) Audubon, John James (56) Bacon, Francis (139) Bacon, Leonard (2) Bailey, Philip James (17) Barney, Joshua (1) Barnum, P. T. (6) Barron, James (1) Bartlett, Josiah (4) Blackmore, Richard (2) Blackstone, William (1) Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas (5) Boleyn, Anne (7) Bolton, Sarah T. (2) Bond, George Phillips (3) Boone, Daniel (20) Braxton, Carter (1) Brooks, John (1) Buchanan, James (6) Bunyan, John (1) Buonarroti, Philippe (1) Burney, Charles (4) Butler, Pierce (1) Butler, William Allen (2) Calhoun, John C. (8) Carroll, Charles (1) Cass, Lewis (2) Chapman, George (5) Chase, Samuel (3) Clark, Abraham (2) Clark, George Rogers (3) Clarke, James Freeman (10) Clay, Henry (11) Clulow, William Benton (25) Clymer, George (4) Coleridge, Hartley (3) Colt, Samuel (1) Congreve, William (30) Copernicus, Nicolaus (3) Coxe, Tench (1) Crockett, Davy (25) Decatur, Stephen (1) Diderot, Denis (10) Ellery, William (13) Ellsworth, Oliver (12) Emerson, Ralph Waldo (13) Fillmore, Millard (5) Fitch, John (2) Flaubert, Gustave (36) Floyd, William (1) Franklin, Benjamin (255) Fulton, Robert (4) Gadsden, Christopher (11) Gallatin, Albert (1) Gaon, Vilna (2) Garrison, William Lloyd (1) Geary, John W. (4) Gerry, Elbridge (1) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (2) Goya, Francisco (8) Grotius, Hugo (3) Hale, Nathan (2) Hale, Sarah Josepha (3) Halley, Edmond (4) Hamilton, Alexander (100) Hammon, Jupiter (25) Hancock, John (2) Harrison, William Henry (10) Hawthorne, Nathaniel (37) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (22) Henry (13) Henry, Patrick (19) Hitchcock, Ethan A. (5) Hobbes, Thomas (15) Hooper, William (4) Hopkins, Stephen (1) Hopkinson, Francis (1) Hull, William (3) Jackson, Andrew (50) Jay, John (7) Jefferson, Thomas (244) Johnston, Zachariah (1) Jomini, Antoine-Henri (9) Jones, John Paul (9) Jouett, Jack (1) Kemble, Fanny (1) Kennedy, John P. (1) Knox, Henry (11) Krylov, Ivan (2) L'Estrange, Roger (58) Laplace, Pierre-Simon (4) Lee, Francis Lightfoot (6) Lee, Richard Henry (4) Leszczynski, Stanislaw (10) Lincoln, Benjamin (1) Louis (23) Lyon, Matthew (1) Maclure, William (1) Madison, James (182) Marion, Francis (1) Marshall, John (2) Mason, George (22) Middleton, Arthur (3) Monroe, James (22) Moore, Thomas (25) Moreau, Gustave (5) Morgan, Daniel (7) Morris, Gouverneur (4) Morris, Lewis (1) Morton, John (1) Mott, Lucretia (8) Muhlenberg, Peter (1) Nashe, Thomas (14) Nerval, Gerard de (1) Newton, Isaac (7) O'Sullivan, John L. (1) Oken, Lorenz (5) Otis, James (4) Overbury, Thomas (10) Page, John (1) Paine, Thomas (88) Parker, John (1) Penn, William (19) Perry, Oliver Hazard (1) Pierce, William (2) Pike, Zebulon (32) Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (2) Poe, Edgar Allan (39) Polk, James K. (14) Pope, Alexander (85) Pushkin, Alexander (47) Rabutin-Chantal, Marie de (5) Red Jacket (3) Reed, Joseph (1) Rice, David (1) Richardson, Jonathan (5) Richardson, Samuel (17) Roberts, Bartholomew (1) Roscoe, William (1) Ross, Betsy (1) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (66) Rush, Benjamin (7) Ruskin, John (10) Rutledge, Edward (4) Schiller, Friedrich (2) Scott, Walter (1) Sherman, Roger (6) Smith, John (1) Souvre, Madeleine de (27) Spenser, Edmund (3) Steele, Richard (15) Stone, Thomas (2) Story, Joseph (20) Swift, Jonathan (1) Taylor, Zachary (2) Tecumseh (11) Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (46) Thackeray, William Makepeace (10) Thoreau, Henry David (266) Timrod, Henry (3) Trapp, John (5) Travis, William B. (2) Tyler, John (5) Van Buren, Martin (29) Vancouver, George (3) Vespucci, Amerigo (1) Voltaire (20) Walpole, Robert (27) Warren, Joseph (2) Warren, Mercy Otis (1) Washington, George (153) Waterhouse, Benjamin (2) Wayne, Anthony (4) Webster, Daniel (42) Webster, Noah (6) Wesley, John (25) Whipple, William (8) Whittier, John Greenleaf (16) Wigglesworth, Edward (4) Williams, Samuel (1) Wilson, James (19) Winthrop, John (1) Wirt, William (2) Witherspoon, John (7) Wolcott, Oliver (3) Wolsey, Thomas (4) Wycherley, William (13)
Letter Author Find Selected -all- # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z -all- Abernethy, George (1) Adams, Abigail (2) Adams, John (98) Adams, John Quincy (11) Adams, Samuel (59) Addison, Joseph (20) Allen, Ethan (1) Ames, Fisher (9) Arbuthnot, John (11) Audubon, John James (56) Bacon, Francis (139) Bacon, Leonard (2) Bailey, Philip James (17) Barney, Joshua (1) Barnum, P. T. (6) Barron, James (1) Bartlett, Josiah (4) Blackmore, Richard (2) Blackstone, William (1) Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas (5) Boleyn, Anne (7) Bolton, Sarah T. (2) Bond, George Phillips (3) Boone, Daniel (20) Braxton, Carter (1) Brooks, John (1) Buchanan, James (6) Bunyan, John (1) Buonarroti, Philippe (1) Burney, Charles (4) Butler, Pierce (1) Butler, William Allen (2) Calhoun, John C. (8) Carroll, Charles (1) Cass, Lewis (2) Chapman, George (5) Chase, Samuel (3) Clark, Abraham (2) Clark, George Rogers (3) Clarke, James Freeman (10) Clay, Henry (11) Clulow, William Benton (25) Clymer, George (4) Coleridge, Hartley (3) Colt, Samuel (1) Congreve, William (30) Copernicus, Nicolaus (3) Coxe, Tench (1) Crockett, Davy (25) Decatur, Stephen (1) Diderot, Denis (10) Ellery, William (13) Ellsworth, Oliver (12) Emerson, Ralph Waldo (13) Fillmore, Millard (5) Fitch, John (2) Flaubert, Gustave (36) Floyd, William (1) Franklin, Benjamin (255) Fulton, Robert (4) Gadsden, Christopher (11) Gallatin, Albert (1) Gaon, Vilna (2) Garrison, William Lloyd (1) Geary, John W. (4) Gerry, Elbridge (1) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (2) Goya, Francisco (8) Grotius, Hugo (3) Hale, Nathan (2) Hale, Sarah Josepha (3) Halley, Edmond (4) Hamilton, Alexander (100) Hammon, Jupiter (25) Hancock, John (2) Harrison, William Henry (10) Hawthorne, Nathaniel (37) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (22) Henry (13) Henry, Patrick (19) Hitchcock, Ethan A. (5) Hobbes, Thomas (15) Hooper, William (4) Hopkins, Stephen (1) Hopkinson, Francis (1) Hull, William (3) Jackson, Andrew (50) Jay, John (7) Jefferson, Thomas (244) Johnston, Zachariah (1) Jomini, Antoine-Henri (9) Jones, John Paul (9) Jouett, Jack (1) Kemble, Fanny (1) Kennedy, John P. (1) Knox, Henry (11) Krylov, Ivan (2) L'Estrange, Roger (58) Laplace, Pierre-Simon (4) Lee, Francis Lightfoot (6) Lee, Richard Henry (4) Leszczynski, Stanislaw (10) Lincoln, Benjamin (1) Louis (23) Lyon, Matthew (1) Maclure, William (1) Madison, James (182) Marion, Francis (1) Marshall, John (2) Mason, George (22) Middleton, Arthur (3) Monroe, James (22) Moore, Thomas (25) Moreau, Gustave (5) Morgan, Daniel (7) Morris, Gouverneur (4) Morris, Lewis (1) Morton, John (1) Mott, Lucretia (8) Muhlenberg, Peter (1) Nashe, Thomas (14) Nerval, Gerard de (1) Newton, Isaac (7) O'Sullivan, John L. (1) Oken, Lorenz (5) Otis, James (4) Overbury, Thomas (10) Page, John (1) Paine, Thomas (88) Parker, John (1) Penn, William (19) Perry, Oliver Hazard (1) Pierce, William (2) Pike, Zebulon (32) Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (2) Poe, Edgar Allan (39) Polk, James K. (14) Pope, Alexander (85) Pushkin, Alexander (47) Rabutin-Chantal, Marie de (5) Red Jacket (3) Reed, Joseph (1) Rice, David (1) Richardson, Jonathan (5) Richardson, Samuel (17) Roberts, Bartholomew (1) Roscoe, William (1) Ross, Betsy (1) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (66) Rush, Benjamin (7) Ruskin, John (10) Rutledge, Edward (4) Schiller, Friedrich (2) Scott, Walter (1) Sherman, Roger (6) Smith, John (1) Souvre, Madeleine de (27) Spenser, Edmund (3) Steele, Richard (15) Stone, Thomas (2) Story, Joseph (20) Swift, Jonathan (1) Taylor, Zachary (2) Tecumseh (11) Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (46) Thackeray, William Makepeace (10) Thoreau, Henry David (266) Timrod, Henry (3) Trapp, John (5) Travis, William B. (2) Tyler, John (5) Van Buren, Martin (29) Vancouver, George (3) Vespucci, Amerigo (1) Voltaire (20) Walpole, Robert (27) Warren, Joseph (2) Warren, Mercy Otis (1) Washington, George (153) Waterhouse, Benjamin (2) Wayne, Anthony (4) Webster, Daniel (42) Webster, Noah (6) Wesley, John (25) Whipple, William (8) Whittier, John Greenleaf (16) Wigglesworth, Edward (4) Williams, Samuel (1) Wilson, James (19) Winthrop, John (1) Wirt, William (2) Witherspoon, John (7) Wolcott, Oliver (3) Wolsey, Thomas (4) Wycherley, William (13)
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I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.
— George Phillips Bond Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?
— George Phillips Bond Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.
— George Phillips Bond
