Date: 1710
Honour is a "Maggot that infects the giddy Brains / Of Cowards, Foold, rich Knaves, and Curtizans"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1713, 1734
"We are chained to a body, that is to say, our perceptions are connected with corporeal motions."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1741
"Says Body to Mind, ''Tis amazing to see, / We're so nearly related yet never agree, / But lead a most wrangling strange sort of life, / As great plagues to each other as husband and wife.'"
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1745
"Truth is an amiable and delightful Object to the Eye of the Mind, but it is not easily apprehended by the Bulk of Mankind; especially if it be remote from common Observation, or abstracted from sensible Experience."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)