Date: 1750, 1752
"Whether the Mind, like Soil, doth not by Disuse grow stiff; and whether Reasoning and Study be not like stirring and dividing the Glebe?"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1750, 1752
"Whether even those Parts of Academical Learning which are quite forgotten, may not have improved and enriched the Soil, like those Vegetables which are raised, not for themselves, but plowed in for a Dressing of Land?"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"The duty of children to their parents, a duty which nature implants in every breast, forms the strength of that government which has subsisted for time immemorial."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"A mind rightly instituted in the school of philosophy, acquires at once the stability of the oak, and the flexibility of the osier."
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