Date: From Saturday June 3. to Tuesday June 6. 1710
"The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark with which a Child is born is to be taken away by any future Application."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, December 3, 1711
"Among all the Diseases of the Mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the Love of Flattery."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Wednesday, June 6, 1711
"Pardon me, oh Pharamond, if my Griefs give me Leave, that I lay before you, in the Anguish of a wounded Mind, that you, good as you are, are guilty of the generous Blood spilt this Day by this unhappy Hand: Oh that it had perished before that Instant!"
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, April 28, 1712
"This must certainly be a most charming Exercise to the Mind that is rightly turned for it."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: 1713, 1734
"We are chained to a body, that is to say, our perceptions are connected with corporeal motions."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"By turns a thousand inclinations rise / & each by turns as impotently dies."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1713
"The Stoical Scheme of Supplying our Wants by lopping off our Desires, is like cutting off our Feet when we want Shoes."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)