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Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"And our Minds represent to us those Tombs, to which we are approaching; where though the Brass and Marble remain, yet the Inscriptions are effaced by time, and the Imagery moulders away."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: November 18, 1697
"But when they read the Volumes of his Mind, / (Vast Tomes!) and Search'd the Closets of his Brain, / What endless Sums of Wisdom did they find?"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)