Date: September 17, 1726
"This Train of Images continually revolv'd in our young Parson's Brain; and to preserve them from being jostled out by any intruding Foreigners, who might dispossess the Original Orthodox Inhabitants, the first Link of the Chain was rivetted by Pride, and the two last closed up by those two insep...
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: 1726
"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"For, what does the Ambitious Prince or the Licentious Multitude; what does the Covetous, and Revengeful, or the Debauched Sinner; but only chuse to be a Servant to Passion, instead of a Follower of Right Reason?"
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)