Date: 1756, 1766
"Let us hearken then to the original law of reason, and follow God and nature as the sure guide to happiness."
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Date: 1756, 1766
Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite"
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Date: 1756, 1766
A passion may be "rebellious and lawless"
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1756, 1766
Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite."
preview | full record— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)
Date: 1759
"You will easily believe that I was pleased with his courtesy; and finding that his predominant passion was desire of money, I began now to think my danger less, for I knew that no sum would be thought too great for the release of Pekuah."
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Date: 1759
"He shewed, with great strength of sentiment, and variety of illustration, that human nature is degraded and debased, when the lower faculties predominate over the higher."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1759
"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."
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Date: 1759
"He shewed, with great strength of sentiment, and variety of illustration, that human nature is degraded and debased, when the lower faculties predominate over the higher; that when fancy, the parent of passion, usurps the dominion of the mind, nothing ensues but the natural effect of unlawful go...
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Date: 1759
"By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick."
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Date: 1760
"[W]hen the mighty spirit of a large mass of gold takes possession of the human heart, it influences all its actions, and overpowers, or banishes, the weaker impulse of those immaterial, unessential notions called virtues"
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