Date: 1647
"False Coin with which th'Impostor cheats us still; / The Stamp and Colour good, but Metal ill!"
preview | full record— Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
Date: 1651, 1668
"For words are wise mens counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the mony of fooles, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other Doctor whatsoever, if but a man."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)