Date: 1694
"No solicitude in the adornation of your selves is discommended, provided you employ your care about that which is really your self; and do not neglect that particle of Divinity within you, which must survive, and may (if you please) be happy and perfect when it’s unsuitable and much inferiour Co...
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666-1731)
Date: 1754
"Intellect, the artificer, works lamely without his proper instrument, sense; which is the case when he works on moral ideas."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)