Date: Friday, October 26, 1711
"A Man, they say, wears the Picture of his Mind in his Countenance; and one Man's Eyes are Spectacles to his who looks at him to read his Heart."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1768
"The mind sits terrified at the objects she has magnified herself and blackened; reduce them to their proper size and hue she overlooks them."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)