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Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"Malice and most severe Strokes of Fortune can do no more Injury to a Mind thus stript of all Fears, Wishes and Inclinations, than a blind Horse can do in an empty Barn"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1729
"Among the helluones librorum, the Cormorants of Books, there are wretched Reasoners, that have canine Appetites, and no Digestion."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)