Date: 1698

"People love to see their Passions painted no less than their Persons: And like Narcissus are apt to dote on their own Image."

— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)

Date: 1741 [1740]; continued in 1741

"And all this time improve myself too, not only in Science, but in Nature, by tracing in the little Babes what all Mankind are, and have been, from Infancy to riper Years"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)