Date: 1726
"'Twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1744
"I do verily think there is not any other medicine whatsoever so effectual to restore a crazy constitution, and cheer a dreary mind, or so likely to subvert that gloomy empire of the spleen (Sect. 103) which tyrannizeth over the better sort (as they are called) of these free nations, and maketh t...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)