Date: 1773
Philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex
preview | full record— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)
Date: 1773
"There, whilst the vault resounds my plaintive sigh, / In deathful echoes, shall Despondence bring / The saddest visions on the mind's wan eye, / That ever wav'd on Fancy's blackest wing"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1773, 1810
"In my mind's eye with joy the heights I see; / For Middlesex! my soul exults in thee!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1773
"What tho' no Sounds should penetrate the Ear,-- / To list'ning Thought the Voice of Truth is clear."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"His Wounds are healing, and His Griefs give Ease; / He, like a true Physician of the Soul, / Applies the Med'cine that may make it whole."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1774
"Many people lose a great deal of time by reading: for they read frivolous and idle books, such as the absurd romances of the two last centuries; where characters, that never existed, are insipidly displayed, and sentiments that were never felt, pompously described: the Oriental ravings and extra...
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1775
"What numbers censure, but how few judge right, / On subjects, which demand the soul's keen sight"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1775
"[T]here may be a farther difference in the constitution of the nerves belonging to the different senses, or there may be so many circumstances that affect or modify their vibrations, that they may be as distinguishable from one another, as different human voices sounding the same note; and proba...
preview | full record— Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)