Date: Friday, March 17, 1727
"Musick has something so peculiar in it, that it exerts a willing Tyranny over the Mind, and forms the ductil Soul into whatever Shape the Melody directs."
preview | full record— Caleb d'Anvers [pseud. for Nicholas Amhurst, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath]
Date: Friday, April 14, 1727
"A Man of true Honour will as soon break open a Lock as a Letter, which does not belong to him; and pick his Neighbour's Pocket, as soon as discover his Nakedness in this Respect; for a Letter, being the Representative of the Person's Heart, who sends it, ought to pass, without Examination or Int...
preview | full record— Caleb d'Anvers [pseud. for Nicholas Amhurst, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath]
Date: Friday, April 21, 1727
"For though it is generally believed that few Statesmen are much afflicted with this terrible Inmate; yet, upon a careful Inspection of human Nature, I find it to be a vulgar Error; and am fully satisfied that, notwithstanding the outward placid Behaviour and smiling Aspect of t...
preview | full record— Caleb d'Anvers [pseud. for Nicholas Amhurst, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath]
Date: 1730
An image may be "too strongly stamp'd, to be soon effac'd" from one's [breast? mind?]
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"We call that Judgment which is only Will, / And as we act, we learn to argue ill; / Like Bigots, who their various Creeds defend / By making Reason still to System bend."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Date: 1734 [1735?]
"Customs or Int'rests govern all Mankind, / Some Biass cleaves to the unguarded Mind; / Thro' this, as in a false or flatt'ring Glass / Things seem to change their Natures as they pass."
preview | full record— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)