Date: 1598
"Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed / In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes."
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Date: 1600
"I mean that my heart unto yours is knit, / So that but one heart we can make of it."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1600
"I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, / By his best arrow with the golden head, / By the simplicity of Venus' doves, / By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, / And by that fire which burned the Carthage queen / When the false Trojan under sail was seen."
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Date: 1600
"Not to be married, / Not to knit my soul to an approvèd wanton."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1611
"And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul"
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Date: 1644, 1647
"Sensory awareness comes about by means of nerves, which stretch like threads from the brain to all the limbs, and are joined together in such a way that hardly any part of the human body can be touched without producing movement in several of the nerve-ends that are scattered around in that area"
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1656
"It is impossible, Lady, except you should alter the Fabrick of his mind, unbend its appetite, or give it new desires; for as long as the divine soul creating breath, is clad with different disposing matter, and cast in several moulds, there will be Wise and Fooles."
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Date: 1678
"This righteousness, I say, true faith accepteth, under the skirt of which, the soul being shrouded, and by it presented as spotless before God, it is accepted, and acquit from condemnation."
preview | full record— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)
Date: 1692
"This Letter (said Brook) shews that the force of Affectation draws a Veil before the Judgment, which else would govern Fancy according to Sense, and Reason."
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Date: 1694
"Certainly, the joyning of Hearts in a Matrimonial State, is of all conditions the happiest; for then a Man has, whom to unravel his Thoughts to, as well as a sweet Companion in his Labour."
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