Date: 1641
"Now admittedly, it is not necessary that I ever light upon any thought of God; but whenever I do choose to think of the first and supreme being, and bring forth the idea of God from the treasure house of my mind as it were, it is necessary that I attribute all perfections to him, even if I do no...
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1647
"False Coin with which th'Impostor cheats us still; / The Stamp and Colour good, but Metal ill!"
preview | full record— Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
Date: 1651, 1668
"The Latins called accounts of money rationes, and accounting ratiocinatio; and that which we in bills or books of account call items, they call nomina, that is names; and thence it seems to proceed, that they extended the word ratio to the faculty of reckoning in all other things."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1651, 1668
"For words are wise mens counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the mony of fooles, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other Doctor whatsoever, if but a man."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1656
"He is too froward, that will refuse a piece of coin that is current throughout the world, because it is not stamped after his own fancy."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1657
Fancy is "The immateriall Coyner. That makes a bodilesse Creation."
preview | full record— Poole, Joshua (c.1615–c.1656)