Date: 1689
"So the Philosopher would needs be blind, / T' improve the nobler Eye-sight of his Mind, / Not to mean earthly Opticks be confin'd."
preview | full record— Goodall, Charles (1671-1689)
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)