Date: 1723
"Enormous Bacchanalian Pleasures, loose / Milesian Feasts and Luxury in Use / Among abandon'd Sibarites, were dear / To all the Natives sunk in Riot here, / As they to brutal Instincts had resign'd / Celestial Reason's Empire of the Mind."
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Date: 1723
"Kings of the Empire of the Soul possest, / Who sit enthron'd secure in every Breast / In Civil Strength, and Glory will encrease, / And triumph mid'st the Joys of lasting Peace."
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Date: 1723
"Vice had usurp'd the Empire of his Soul."
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Date: 1723
"[C]an Arms o'er Reason Conquests win, / And triumph o'er the awful Judge within?"
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Date: 1723
"Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?"
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Date: 1723
"Tho' now, 'tis true, the strong Temptation's Force / Suspends Religion, and diverts its Course; / Yet still the Pow'r that chiefly rules your Soul, / And will I trust your future Life controul, / Is heav'nly Virtue, which, tho' now opprest / It sleeps a while unactive in your Breast, / Will, rou...
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Date: 1723
The "conscious Pow'r, the Judge within," may "With Frowns and awful Menaces begin / To fill [one] with Remorse and secret Fear"
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Date: 1728
For a wise and virtuous king "Reason alone his upright judgement guides"
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Date: 1738, 1742
"Ye Princes by destructive Passions led / Who mount without a Blush th'adult'rous Bed / Who hear your Subjects all around complain / Of Wrongs, repeated Wrongs, on Land and Main, / While all your Counsels are yourselves to please, / And while ye batten in inglorious Ease, / 'Tis Virtue only can...
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Date: 1738, 1742
"In doing these ye act the princely Part, / And build your Empires in the People's Heart."
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