Date: 1759
"The mind of a man of Genius is a fertile and pleasant field, pleasant as Elysium, and fertile as Tempe"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"That is, let not great Examples, or Authorities, browbeat thy Reason into too great a diffidence of thyself: Thyself so reverence as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)