Date: 1620
"And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1621
One may have "A soule tra-lucent in an open brest"
preview | full record— Sylvester, Joshua (1562/3-;1618)
Date: 1651
"Attraction is a ministering faculty, which, as a loadstone doth iron, draws meat into the stomach, or as a lamp doth oil; and this attractive power is very necessary in plants, which suck up moisture by the root, as, another mouth, into the sap, as a like stomach."
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)
Date: 1658
"May not our eyes bee very well defin'd / The Looking-glass of Nature, and the minde."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1660, 1676
"Conscience is the brightness and splendor of the eternal light, a spotless mirror of the Divine Majesty, and the Image of the goodness of God."
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1660, 1676
In sum, It is the image of God; and as in the mysterious Trinity, we adore the will, memory, and understanding, and Theology contemplates three persons in the analogies, proportions, and correspondences, of them: so in this also we see plainly that Conscience is that likeness of God, in which he ...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1674
"And therefore for the more probable explication of the Phenomena of the Passions which are not raised in the Rational Soul, I found myself obliged to admit her to have a Sensitive one conjoyned with her, to receive her immediate suggestions, and to actuate the body according to her soveraign wil...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1674
"In Man indeed, it seems not difficult to conceive, that the Rational Soul, as president of all th'inferiour faculties, and constantly speculating the impressions, or images represented to her by the Sensitive, as by a mirrour; doth first form to herself conceptions and notions correspondent to t...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1677
"My Habit is the Mirror of my Mind, little do you know the value of this outside"?
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"A mirk mirrour is a man's mind."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)