Date: 1762
"En méditant sur la nature de l’homme, j’y crus découvrir deux principes distincts, dont l’un l’élevoit à l’étude des vérités éternelles, à l’amour de la justice & du beau moral, aux régions du monde intellectuel dont la contemplation fait les délices du sage, & dont l’autre le ramenoit bassement...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"FORTUNE has made me the slave of another, but nature and inclination render me entirely subservient to you; a tyrant commands my body, but you are master of my heart."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"You would fondly persuade me that my former lessons still influence your conduct, and yet your mind seems not less enslaved than your body."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: w. c. 1762, 1850
"For love, I fear, corrupts the judge within."
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)
Date: September 1762; 1774
"Some vices must to all appear / As constitutional as Fear; / And every Moralist will find / A ruling passion in the mind."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Date: 1762
"The true heavenly David give, / The just and loving One, / After Thine own heart, to live, / And fix in us His throne."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Come, and 'stablish in my heart / Thine everlasting throne."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
God may "Fix in every heart of man / [His] everlasting throne"
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Date: 1762
"Come, and erect Thy throne / Eternal in my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
God may "reign in all our hearts alone."
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