Date: 1722
"O! what a felicity is it to Mankind, said I, to myself, that they cannot see into the Hearts of one another!"
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1735
"He seemed therefore confident, that instead of Reason, we were only possessed of some Quality fitted to increase our natural Vices; as the Reflection from a troubled Stream returns the Image of an ill-shapen Body, not only larger, but more distorted."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)