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."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1992
"Patrick had tried to sleep, but tattered rags of speed still trailed through his consciousness and kept him charging forward."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)