Date: 1609
"Save that my soul's imaginary sight / Presents thy shadow to my sightless view"
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1609
"Looke what thy memorie cannot containe, / Commit to these waste blacks, and thou shalt finde / Those children nurst, deliuerd from thy braine, / To take a new acquaintance of thy minde."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1610
Man "into himself can draw / All, all his faith can swallow, or reason chaw ... All the round world, to man is but a pill."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: w. 1610-11, 1623
"You cram these words into mine ears against / The stomach of my sense."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611
"For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: w. c. 48-58, trans. 1611
"But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ."
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Date: w. c. 48-58, trans. 1611
"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. "
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Date: w. c. 61-63?, trans. 1611
Vanity of mind darkens the understanding and blinds the heart
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: w. c. 61-63?, trans. 1611
"Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind."
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: 1704
"Erect your schemes with as much method and skill as you please; yet, if the materials be nothing but dirt, spun out of your own entrails (the guts of modern brains), the edifice will conclude at last in a cobweb; the duration of which, like that of other spiders’ webs, may be imputed to their be...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)