Date: 1700
"We seldome use our Liberty aright, / Nor Judge of Things by Universal Light; / Our Prepossessions and Affections bind / The Soul in Chains, and Lord it o're the Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700
"They cannot, no; each sigh Love's flight sustains, / O'er my own Heart in my own Breast he Reigns, / And holds too strong, my strugling Soul in Chains."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1702
"Now how should he possibly do this, unless he is absolutely free, and undisturbed by tormenting Passions, which bind him, as it were, and if I may use that expression, chain him fast to himself."
preview | full record— Dennis, John (1658-1734)
Date: 1703
"Kings may our Hands with Iron Fetters bind, / With Chains severer, you secure the Mind."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"Kings may our Hands with Iron Fetters bind, / With Chains severer, you secure the Mind."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"So low it [my Condition] sinks me, by my Stile you'll find, / My Body's less in bondage than my Mind."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"Man in himself a little World contains / A Soul not subject or to Bonds or Chains."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"Force, and the Wills of our Imperious Rulers, / May bind two Bodies in one wretched Chain; / But Minds will still look back to their own Choice. / So the poor Captive in a Foreign Realm, / Stands on the Shoar, and sends his Wishes back / To the dear Native Land from whence he came."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1703
"And this is a great bondage to the mind of man, to live in ignorance of those things which are useful for us to know; to be mistaken about those matters which are of great moment and concernment to us to be rightly informed in: Ignorance is the confinement of our understandings, as Knowledge and...
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
Date: 1703
"By ignorance, and error, and prejudice, the mind of man is fetter'd and entangled, so that it hath not the free use of it self: but when we are rightly informed, especially in those things which are useful and necessary for us to know, we recover our liberty, and feel our selves enlarged from th...
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)