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Charles Brockden Brown was an American novelist known for his Gothic novels and realistic works. His writings often explored moral and religious issues, reflecting the social conditions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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“So flexible, and yet so stubborn is the human mind. So obedient to impulses the most transient and brief, and yet so unalterably observant of the direction which is given to it! How little did I then foresee the termination of that chain, of which this may be regarded as the first link?”

Mind Stubborn

Book:Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

Source: Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

“I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.”

Mind Used Certain Evil Energy Sound Enemy Virtue Our Lives Design Vices Possession Supplies Sound Mind

Book:Wieland, Or, The Transformation

Source: Wieland, Or, The Transformation

“Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.”

Mind Ideas Law

Author:Charles Brockden Brown

About the Author

Born: January 17, 1771
Died: February 22, 1810
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 13

Books & Sources

Carwin the Biloquist and Other American Tales and Pieces; Volume IIIRelated source material

Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the BiloquistRelated source material

Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a SleepwalkerRelated source material

Somnambulism and other storiesRelated source material

Wieland, Or, The TransformationRelated source material

Wieland, or, The transformation: an American taleRelated source material

Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the BiloquistRelated source material

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