Date: 1700
"I feel my Soul rise with my Pocket."
preview | full record— Burnaby, William (1673-1706)
Date: 1791
"It can be accounted for only in this way; that by reading and meditation, and a very close inspection of life, he had accumulated a great fund of miscellaneous knowledge, which, by a peculiar promptitude of mind, was ever ready at his call, and which he had constantly accustomed himself to cloth...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)