Date: 1734
"Shall we say then, that there is a first Mover within us, a Mind, Rector, or presiding Faculty over the rest?"
preview | full record— Forbes of Pitsligo, Alexander Forbes, Lord (1678-1762)
Date: 1736
"As she was one day sitting alone in her Garden, ruminating on the last Words of her Father, and the strict Injunction laid on her concerning the Carcanet, Emotions, to which hitherto she had been a Stranger, began to diffuse themselves throughout her Mind."
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)