Date: 1704
"A master workman shall blow his nose so powerfully as to pierce the hearts of his people, who were disposed to receive the excrements of his brain with the same reverence as the issue of it."
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Date: 1735
Reason may be "lull'd to Sleep by Idleness"
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Date: 1759
"Words are but Pictures, tru or False Designd / To Draw the Lines, and Features of the Minde"
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Date: 1759
"Whence Multitudes of reverend Men and Critics / Have got a kind of intellectual Rickets, / And by th'immoderate Excess of Study / Have found the sickly Head t'outgrow the Body.
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)