Date: 1754
"I may with the same Naïvité remove the Veil from my mental as well as personal Imperfections; and expose them naked to the World."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1754
"'Orandum est', let us pray, says Juvenal, 'ut sit mens sana in corpore sano', for a sound Mind in a healthy Body; and every deformed Person should add this Petition, 'ut sit mens recta in corpore curvo', for an upright Mind in a crooked one."
preview | full record— Hay, William (1695-1755)
Date: 1771
"Now as our Feet in vain venture to walk upon the River, till the Frost bind the Current, and harden the yielding Surface; so does the SOUL in vain seek to exert its higher Powers, the Powers I mean of REASON and INTELLECT, till IMAGINATION first fix the fluency of SENSE, and thus provide ...
preview | full record— Harris, James (1709-1780)
Date: 1778
"Every seminary of learning may be said to be surrounded with an atmosphere of floating knowledge, where every mind may imbibe somewhat congenial to its own original conceptions."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)