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Date: 1741
A charmer may gain "a mental Empire" "And still a Queen thro' every bosom reign"
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746)
Date: 1748, 1750
"l'interêt est le plus grande monarque de la Terre" [Self-interest is the strongest monarch in the world]
preview | full record— Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Date: 1755
"Who has a breast so pure,/ But some uncleanly apprehensions/ Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,/ With meditations lawful"
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
