Date: May 10, 1704
"Thus far, I suppose, will easily be granted me; and then it will follow that as the face of Nature never produces rain but when it is overcast and disturbed, so human understanding seated in the brain must be troubled and overspread by vapours ascending from the lower faculties to water the inve...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1704
"Now I confess I am of Opinion, that the Mind is so far from being a Rasa Tabula, that it is plentifully furnished with all Ideas of Truth, which are the Seeds and Principles of all Knowledge we have, or ever shall have; that we cannot form any one true Notion, but what is founded in some ...
preview | full record— Sherlock, William (1639/40-1707)
Date: 1705
"What are ye, but a Field, or plot of ground, to be manured and cultivated for God?"
preview | full record— Flavell, John (bap. 1630, d. 1691)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Implant, to ingraft, fix or fasten, in the Mind."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Ingraft, to graft, to let a Graft or young Shoot into the stock of a Tree, to implant, imprint, or fix in the Mind."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Antapodosis, a returning or repaying on the other Side or by turns: In Rhetorick, the Counter-part or latter Clause of a Similitude, answering the former. Thus, As the Soil is improv'd by Tilling, So the Mind is more refin'd, and render'd more sublime by good Discipline"
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"Plantal, causing to sprout forth, or grow; as in The Plantal Faculties of the Soul. "
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1706
"And therefore wert thou bred to virtuous Knowledge, / And Wisdom early planted in thy Soul; / That thou might'st know to rule thy fiery Passions, / To bind their Rage, and stay their headlong Course."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Date: 1708, 1714
"But the knowledg of our Passions in their very Seeds, the measuring well the Growth and Progress of Enthusiasm, and the judging rightly of its natural Force, and what command it has over our very Senses, may teach us to oppose more successfully those Delusions which come arm'd with the specious ...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: November 25, 1707; 1708
"Oh! do not, do not blast the springing Hopes / Which thy kind Hand has planted in my Soul."
preview | full record— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)