Authors born between 1700 and 1800

Author (number of quotes)Description
A
Adams, John (2)second President of the United States
Adams, John Quincy (1)American politician
Austen, Jane (15)English author
B
Babbage, Charles (2)English mathematician, philosopher, inventor
Balzac, Honoré de (2)French author
Bancroft, George (1)American historian and statesman
Beethoven, Ludwig van (2)German composer
Blake, William (7)English poet and painter
Bonaparte, Napoleon (6)French military and political leader
Börne, Ludwig (1)German author
C
Carlyle, Thomas (6)Scottish-born author and historian
Chamfort, Nicolas (6)French author
Channing, William E. (1)American preacher
Chatterton, Thomas (1)English poet
Colton, Charles Caleb (6)English clergyman, author
Cowper, William (2)English poet
Csokonai, Vitéz Mihály (4)Hungarian poet
D
Dalton, John (1)English physicist and chemist
Diderot, Denis (3)French philosopher
F
Faraday, Michael (1)English physicist and chemist
Fourier, Joseph (1)French mathematician and physicist
Franklin, Benjamin (27)American author, politician, philosopher, scientist
G
Gauss, Carl Friedrich (2)German mathematician and scientist
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (15)German author and poet
Goya, Francisco (1)pen name of Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter
H
Heber, Reginald (1)English bishop
Heine, Heinrich (2)German poet, author, journalist
Hume, David (1)Scottish philosopher and historian
I
Irving, Washington (2)American author and historian
J
Jefferson, Thomas (9)American president, lawyer, inventor
Johnson, Samuel (10)English author and poet
Joubert, Joseph (5)French moralist and essayist
K
Kant, Immanuel (3)German philosopher
Keats, John (2)English poet
Kölcsey, Ferenc (1)Hungarian poet
L
LaGrange, Joseph-Louis (1)Italian-born French mathematician and astronomer
Lamartine, Alphonse de (2)French author and poet
Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1)French mathematician, astronomer
M
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (2)English politician and author
Maistre, Joseph de (1)Savoyard philosopher
Monroe, James (1)American statesman
Montagu, Elizabeth (1)English-born author
P
Paine, Thomas (6)English-American author and politician
Poisson, Siméon (1)French mathematician
Q
Quincey, Thomas de (1)English author
R
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (4)French philosopher, author and composer
S
Schlegel, Friedrich von (1)German philosopher and author
Schopenhauer, Arthur (11)German philosopher
Shelley, Mary (4)English author
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2)English poet
Smith, Adam (1)Scottish economist and philosopher
Southey, Robert (1)English poet
V
Volta, Alessandro (1)Italian physicist
Vörösmarty, Mihály (4)Hungarian poet, author
W
Walker, John (1)Scottish politician and scientist
Walpole, Horace (1)pen name of Horatio Walpole, English author, politician
Washington, George (3)1st President of the United States
Whately, Richard (2)English theologian and author
Wordsworth, William (2)English poet
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