Date: 1753
"The Moral of this Fable is, that Humanity is the Characteristick of Man; and that a cruel Soul in a human Body, is only a Wolf in Disguise."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1757
"By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit whether we take or whether we lose our game, the chace is certainly of service"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1757
"[T]he judgment is for the greater part employed in throwing stumbling blocks in the way of the imagination, in dissipating the scenes of enchantment, and in tying us down to the disagreeable yoke of our reason"
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1775
"This is the true nature of the human mind; the greater evil always swallowing up the lesser, as the rod of Moses did the other serpents."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)