Date: Saturday, November 3, 1750
"When we have heated our zeal in a cause, and elated our confidence with success, we are naturally inclined to persue the same train of reasoning, to establish some collateral truth, to remove some adjacent difficulty, and to take in the whole comprehension of our system. As a prince in the ardou...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1780
"For such men the city alone is the proper habitation; where every street and market-place is full of enjoyments; there pleasure enters in at every gate: through the eye, the ear, the taste, the smell; through every part and every sense she gains admittance, and not a path remains that is not wid...
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
Date: [1782]
"I have already mentioned the BRAIN as the Capital Organ of all Sensation, and from it the Nerves all originate."
preview | full record— Martin, Benjamin (bap. 1705, d. 1782)
Date: 1794
"Emporium, a market-town; but metaphorically applied to the brain, which is the seat of all rational and sensitive transaction."
preview | full record— Quincy, John (d. 1722)