Date: 1596
"Vnderstanding is that facultie in the soale whereby we vse reason: and it is the more principall part seruing to rule and order the whole man, and therefore it is placed in the soule to be as the wagginer in the waggin."
preview | full record— Perkins, William (1558-1602)
Date: December 10, 1776; 1777
"All arts having the same general end, which is to please, and addressing themselves to the same faculties through the medium of the senses, it follows that their rules and principles must have as great affinity as the different materials and the different organs or vehicles by which they pass to...
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)