Date: 1747
"The figures, which must actuate her, remain / As yet quite uncollected in the brain; / Exterior objects have not furnish' yet / Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1748, 1749
"These are the methods, as far as I comprehend, that have filled the brain with ideas, for the reception of which nature has formed it."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)