Events
- March 25 — Oxford University expels Percy Bysshe Shelley after Shelley and Thomas Jefferson Hogg refuse to answer questions about The Necessity of Atheism, a pamphlet they wrote.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)