Date: 1747
"The figures, which must actuate her, remain / As yet quite uncollected in the brain; / Exterior objects have not furnish' yet / Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1747
"But the wild passions, once broke loose, to check / Surpass'd his pow'r, or the slack'd reins recall."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1747
"And where's the boasted liberty of man? / Chang'd are his lords indeed; and tyrant Lust / Usurps the just supremacy of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1777
"The minds of the negroes are contracted; because slavery destroys all the springs of the soul."
preview | full record— Raynal, Guillaume Thomas (1713-1796)
Date: 1780-85; in French, 36 vols. 1749-1788
"Is it difficult to perceive that our ideas originate from our senses alone; that the objects we regard as real existences, are those concerning which the senses uniformly give the same testimony."
preview | full record— Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707-1788)