Date: c. 1603
"But do you suppose, when all the approaches and entrances to men's minds are beset and blocked by the most obscure idols -- idols deeply implanted and, as it were, burned in -- that any clean and polished surface remains in the mirror of the mind on which the genuine natural light of things can ...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1605, 1640
"By which wordes he declares, not obscurely, that God hath framed the Mind of Man, as a Mirror or Glasse capable of the Image of the universall world, and as joyfull to receive the impressions thereof, as the eye joyeth to receave light; and not only delighted in the beholding, the variety of thi...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1660, 1676
"Conscience is the brightness and splendor of the eternal light, a spotless mirror of the Divine Majesty, and the Image of the goodness of God."
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
Internal and external sensation, "These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room: For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or i...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1691
"The Sense deceivs us, and like Painted Glass / Tinges all Objects, that do thrô it pass."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1692
"We Truth by a Refracted ray / View, like the Sun at Ebb of day: / Whom the gross, treacherous Atmosphere / Makes where it is not, to appear."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"I burn and am consumed with hopeless Love; those Beams in whose soft temperate warmth I wanton'd heretofore, now flash destruction to my Soul, my Treacherous greedy Eyes have suck'd the glaring Light, they have united all its Rays, and, like a burning-Glass, Convey'd the pointed Meteor to-my Hea...
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)