The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
| Source Text(definition of “Source text”) | Gesture(definition of “Intertextual gesture”) | Referenced Work(definition of “Referenced work”) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) | Text of the Gesture | Gesture Type (The Terminology page on “”) | Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Fear not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God.” | quote | Isaiah. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “The upright man is satisfied from himself;” | quote | Proverbs. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “O, Death! where is thy sting? O, Grave! where is thy victory? Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ;—blessing and honor, glory and power, be unto him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.” | quote | 1 Corinthians. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “when tongues shall cease,” | quote | 1 Corinthians. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “knowledge shall vanish away.” | quote | 1 Corinthians. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “to seek first the kingdom of heaven, and His righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto us.” | quote | Matthew. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “I am more indebted to my tutor, Aristotle, than to my father Philip; for Philip gives me my living, but Aristotle teaches me how to live.” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people.” | quote | Isaiah. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “If you wish to understand, read;” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “education forms the mind.” | quote | Pope, Alexander. Ethic Epistles, Satires, &c. 1735. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “forsake every false way,” | quote | Psalms. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.” | quote | Proverbs. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “doing unto others as you would wish them to do unto you.” | quote | Luke. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Integrity, or the observance of justice, then, is essential to private and public happiness. It is the fundamental principle in all the numerous concerns of society. Every deviation from justice and rectitude among men, is a violation of the divine commands.” | quote | Webster, Noah. A Manual of Useful Studies. 1839. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “there is happiness in the very wish to make others happy.” | quote | Chalmers, Thomas. Proofs For the Being and Character of God in the Constitution of the Human Mind. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “His spirit ascended to God who gave it.” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “The being who best knows for what end we were placed here, has scattered in our path something beside roses.” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Girl's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1843. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Time was, when the temple of science was barred against the foot of woman. Heathen tyranny held her in vassalage, and Mahometan prejudice pronounced her without a soul. Now, from the sanctuary which knowledge and wisdom have consecrated, and from whence she was so long excluded, the interdict is taken away. How does she prize the gift? Does she press to gain a stand at the temple of knowledge, or will she clothe her brow in vanity, and be satisfied with ignorance. May we improve the influence which is now given us, and seek for ‘glory and immortality beyond the grave.’” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Girl's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1843. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | ‘glory and immortality beyond the grave.’” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “It is necessary for me to go—it is necessary for me to live.” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “A little ship, floating on the stream, is tossed here and there by every little breeze and wave, while the huge log ploughs its course majestically along, undisturbed by the raging winds or foaming billows. The former represents the undecided man, the latter the decided man.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “the giver of every good and perfect gift.” | quote | James. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long on the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee,” | quote | Exodus. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “to rise up before the face of the old man, and to honor the hoary head.” | quote | Leviticus. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “The Athenians know what is right,” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “but the Spartans practice it.” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Time,” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “is money.” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “time was his estate.” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “let me see the private books of an individual, and I will tell you his character.” | quote | Morley, Charles. A Practical Guide to Composition: with Progressive Exercises in Prose and Poetry. 1838. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “let me write the private books of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws.” | quote | Morley, Charles. A Practical Guide to Composition: with Progressive Exercises in Prose and Poetry. 1838. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Knowledge,” | quote | Stanhope, Philip. Letters to His Son By the Earl of Chesterfield. | Letter |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “is a comfortable and necessary shelter for us in an advanced age;” | quote | Stanhope, Philip. Letters to His Son By the Earl of Chesterfield. | Letter |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Greece hungered, and we gave her food; she was naked, and we clothed her.” | quote | Stanhope, Philip. Letters to His Son By the Earl of Chesterfield. | Letter |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “which is daunted by no difficulty, and without which genius avails little.” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Boy's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1839. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | Farmer's Boy, | title | Bloomfield, Robert. The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem. 1800. | Poetry |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | ‘industry is happiness, and idleness is an offence both to nature and to her God.’” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Boy's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1839. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | ‘what seek you among us?’ | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | ‘took little children in his arms and blessed them.’” | quote | Mark. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “But God hath made of one blood all who dwell upon the face of the earth.” | quote | Acts. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way. Thirsty, their souls fainted in them.” | quote | Psalms. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | Psalms | title | Psalms. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “In such a case there is no distinction. If the master has not, the servant will not give it to him; for very few are the instances where a man will voluntarily lose his life to save that of another. What a situation for a man, though a rich one, perhaps the owner of all the caravan! He is dying for a cup of water—no one gives it to him; he offers all he possesses—no one hears him; they are all dying, though by walking a few hours further, they might be saved. | quote | Belzoni, Giovanni Battista. Travels in Egypt and Nubia. 1820. | Travel writing |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “No situation in life is so favorable to established habits of virtue, and to powerful sentiments of devotion, as a residence in the country, and rural occupations.” | quote | Buckminster, J.S. Rural Occupations favorable to Sentiments of Devotion. | Theology |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “No man, one would think; would feel so sensible his immediate dependence upon God, as the farmer. For all this peculiar blessings he is invited to look immediately to the bounty of heaven. No secondary cause stands between him and his Maker. To him are essential the regular succession of the seasons, and the timely fall of the rains, the genial warmth of the sun, the sure productiveness of the soil, and the certain operations of those laws of nature, which must appear to him nothing less than the varied exertions of Omnipresent energy.” | quote | Buckminster, J.S. Rural Occupations favorable to Sentiments of Devotion. | Theology |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “In the country, we seem to stand in the midst of the great theatre of God's power and we feel an unusual proximity to our Creator. His blue and tranquil sky spreads itself over our heads, and we acknowledge the intrusion of no secondary agent in unfolding its vast expanse. Nothing but Omnipotence can work up the dark horrors of the tempest, dart the flashes of the lightning, and roll the long resounding murmur of the thunder. | quote | Buckminster, J.S. Rural Occupations favorable to Sentiments of Devotion. | Theology |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Did man control his passions, and form his conduct according to the dictates of wisdom, humanity and virtue, the earth would no longer be desolated by cruelty; and human societies would live in order, harmony and peace. In those scenes of mischief and violence which fill the world, let man behold with shame, the picture of his vices, his ignorance and folly. Let him be humble by the mortifying view of his own perverseness; but let not his ‘heart fret against the Lord.’” | quote | Buckminster, J.S. Rural Occupations favorable to Sentiments of Devotion. | Theology |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | ‘heart fret against the Lord.’” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Man that is born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.” | quote | Job. | Sacred text |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “I have seen a youth in the pride of his days; his cheeks glowed with beauty; his limbs were full of activity; he leaped; he walked; he ran; he rejoiced in that he was more excellent than those. I returned: he lay cold and stiff on the bare ground; his feet could no longer move, nor his hands stretch themselves out; his life was departed from him; and the breath out of his nostrils. Therefore do I weep because Death is in the world; the spoiler is among the works of God; all that is made must be destroyed; all that is born must die.” | quote | Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin). Hymns in Prose for Children. 1781. | |