Date: 1675
"Gods works don't teach [the manner of worship}, nor this Law of th'mind; / For if it would, Scriptures need not 'been pen'd,"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1681
"Also the ignorance of what is Equity in their own causes, which Equity not one Man in a thousand ever Studied, and the Lawyers themselves seek not for their Judgments in their own Breasts, but in the precedents of former Judges, as the Antient Judges sought the same, not in their own Reason, but...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1681
"O who shall me deliver whole, / From bonds of this Tyrannic Soul?"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1710
"Blows only pass 'twixt Porters and their Trulls, / Where brutish Rage, instead of Reason, rules, / Those of our Rank, altho' the Cause be great, / Should scorn to jar at such a scoundrel Rate."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710
When passion cools, "Reason may again bear Rule"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1726
"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1732, 1736
Reason may over-rule fancy
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1752
"Can you be free while passions rule you?"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1752
"The wise alone, / Who only bows to reason's throne; / Whom neither want, nor death, nor chains, / Nor subtle persecutor's pains, / Nor honours, wealth, nor lust can move / From virtue and his country's love."
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1752
"In vain--The Master-Passion governs still, / And forces you to yield against your Will"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]