Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"Just so the Head of Man contains within / The Intellect, with Rays and Light Divine."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 1750
"[T]hough I do not pretend to give laws to the legislators of mankind, or to limit the range of those powerful minds that carry light and heat through all the regions of knowledge, yet I have long thought, that the greatest part of those who lose themselves in studies by which I have not found th...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)