Date: 1759
"He is a bold surgeon, they say, whose hand does not tremble when he performs an operation upon his own person; and he is often equally bold who does not hesitate to pull off the mysterious veil of self-delusion, which covers from his view the deformities of his own conduct. Rather than see our o...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1759
"We are so nice in this respect that even a rape dishonours, and the innocence of the mind cannot, in our imagination, wash out the pollution of the body."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1759
"But why are Originals so few? not because the Writer's harvest is over, the great Reapers of Antiquity having left nothing to be gleaned after them; nor because the human mind's teeming time is past, or because it is incapable of putting forth unprecedented births."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"The minds of the Schoolmen were almost as much cloistered as their bodies; they had but little learning, and few books."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
"But as good books are the medicine of the mind, if we should dethrone these authors, and consider them, not in their royal, but their medicinal capacity, might it not then be said, that Addison prescribed a wholesome and pleasant regimen, which was universally relished, and did much good; that P...
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1759
The mind sees the truth as the eye sees light
preview | full record— Alembert, Jean le Rond d' (1717-1783)
Date: 1759
"Bring him into society, and he is immediately provided with the mirror which he wanted before. It is placed in the countenance and behaviour of those he lives with, which always mark when they enter into, and when they disapprove of his sentiments; and it is here that he first views the propriet...
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Date: 1759
"The Lady, who now engrossed all Lord Dellwyn's Panegyric, did indeed deserve much more than he could pay, having risen to a Degree of Excellence far above his Lordship's Comprehension; his Mind's Eye, according to Hamlet's Expression, was so shortsighted, it could only disti...
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)
Date: 1759, 1761
"To her mind's eye a thousand ghosts appear, / The foolish apparitions of her fear."
preview | full record— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Menander (342-291 B.C.)
Date: September 15, 1759
"The hand has no closer correspondence with the Memory than the eye"
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)