Date: From Thursd. Febr. 9. to Saturd. Febr. 11. 1710
"The Mind of Man in a long Life will become a Magazine of Wisdom or Folly, and will consequently discharge it self in something impertinent or improving."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: September 10, 1726
"To explain this, we must consider that the first Image which an outward Object imprints on our Brain is very slight; it resembles a thin Vapour which dwindles into nothing, without leaving the least track after it. But if the same Object successively offers itself several times, the Image it occ...
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: 1760-7
The gifts and endowments of wit and judgment may "be poured down warm as each of us could bear it,--scum and sediment an' all; (for I would not have a drop lost) into these veral receptacles, cells, cellules, domiciles, dormitories, refectories, and spare places of our brains,--in such sort, that...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"I would not, brother Toby, continued my father,--I declare I would not have my head so full of curtins and horn-works."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)