Explore 67 quotes from the 1760s

Voltaire. "Ingenuous." Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories, translated by Daniel A. Frame. Signet, 2009, ch. 10.

Voltaire. A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, edited by Nicholas Cronk, translated by John Fletcher. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Voltaire. "Superstition." Philosophical Dictionary, translated by Theodore Besterman. Penguin Classics, 1984.

Franklin, Benjamin. "On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor." Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings. Bantam Classic, 2008.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book III Of Private Wrongs, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 17.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2.

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book IV Of Public Wrongs, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 11.

Adams, John. "A Disseratation on the Canon and Feudal Law." The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, edited by Charles Francis Adams. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good-Natur'd Man. Cambridge University Press, 2013, act 1.