Date: 1713, 1719
"For in our Youth we commonly dress our Thoughts in the Mirrour of Self-Flattery, and expect that Heaven, Fortune, and the World, should cajole our Follies, as we do our own, and lay all Faults on others, and all Praise on our selves."
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1754
"Bred to think as well as speak by rote, they furnish their minds, as they furnish their houses or cloath their bodies, with the fancies of other men, and according to the mode of the age and country."
preview | full record— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)