Date: 1719
A "strange Impression upon the Mind, from we know not what Springs, and by we know not what Power," may over-rule us
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1719
"I now began to consider seriously my Condition, and the Circumstance I was reduc'd to, and I drew up the State of my Affairs in Writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come after me, for I was like to have but few Heirs, as to deliver my Thoughts from daily poring upon them, and a...
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Date: 1726
"Reason alone is sufficient to govern a Rational Creature; which was therefore a Character we had no Pretence to challenge"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)