Date: 1831
"The human mind is a creature of celestial origin, shut up and confined in a wall of flesh"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1805-6, published 1833-6
"At such a time, when the encircling crust, like a soulless decaying tenement, crumbles away, and spirit displays itself arrayed in new youth, the seven league boots are at length adopted"
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"These similitudes or relations are finely said by Lord Bacon to be "the same footsteps of nature impressed upon the various subjects of the world"[1] and he considers the faculty which perceives them as the storehouse of axioms common to all knowledge."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)