Date: 1762-3
"[T]he five senses in alliance [may] / To Reason hurl a proud defiance, / And, though oft conquer'd, yet unbroke, / Endeavour to throw off that yoke / Which they a greater slavery hold / Than Jewish bondage was of old"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"This glorious system form'd for man / To practise when and how he can, / If the five senses in alliance / To Reason hurl a proud defiance, / And, though oft conquer'd, yet unbroken, / Endeavour to throw off that yoke / Which they a greater slavery hold / Than Jewish bondage was of old."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763, 1765; 1766
""Soon will the reign of Hope and Fear be o'er, / And warring passions militate no more."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Date: 1766
"Each of these words, implies, resistance; but, that of 'conquer', refers to victory over enemies; and is, generally, used in the literal sense: that of 'subdue', is more applicable to our passions; being, oftener, used in a figurative; and means, a bringing under subjection: that of 'overcome', ...
preview | full record— Trusler, John (1735-1820)
Date: 1770
"When Reason invades the rights of Common Sense, and presumes to arraign that authority by which she herself acts, nonsense and confusion must of necessity ensue; science will soon come to have neither head nor tail, beginning nor end; philosophy will grow contemptible; and its adherents, far fro...
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1776
"It is this which hath been so justly celebrated as giving one man an ascendant over others, superior even to what despotism itself can bestow; since by the latter the more ignoble part, only the body and its members, are enslaved; whereas, from the dominion of the former, nothing is exempted, ne...
preview | full record— Campbell, George (1719-1796)
Date: 1777
"The love, to which at length I discovered my heart to be subject, had conquered without tumult, and become despotic under the semblance of freedom."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1784, 1804
"The apostle well knew that erroneous men would be busy in besieging their understandings, and that carnal objects would be labouring to engross their affections; vanity to entertain their minds, pleasures to attract their desires, and legality to entangle and govern their consciences."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1784, 1804
" When thus entangled we try to resist, but are still rebuffed or beaten back; this causes rebellion and murmuring to take possession of our hearts."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)
Date: 1787
"These false and boasting reasonings, denominating modesty to be stupidity; temperance, unmanliness; moderation, rusticity; decent expence, illiberality; thrust them all out disgracefully, and expel them their territories, and lead in in triumph insolence and anarchy, and luxury and impudence, wi...
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)