Date: 1675
"Thou say'st, the spirit is a silent voyce, / VVhence is it then thou mak'st so great a noyse?"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"'Tis sure, thy heart hath too too many leaks, / Which sacred things let out, and then let in / Satans suggestions, the world, and sin"
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1685
Tho' a World of dull Bullion your essence do's hold, / Scarce an Atom of Soul was cast into the Mould, / Room enough, and to spare lavish Nature allows, / But provides not a Tenant to suit with the House
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1691
"Strange frightfull Spectres o're my Mind were spread."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1710
"Never from my repenting Thoughts depart, / But stand, like Brass, imprinted in my Heart."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1713, 1734
"And that outward objects by the different impressions they make on the organs of sense, communicate certain vibrative motions to the nerves; and these being filled with spirits, propagate them to the brain or seat of the soul, which according to the various impressions or traces thereby made in ...
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1745
"The infant Mind is ductile like Wax; you may stamp a fair or ugly Impression upon it, Error or Knowledge, Indolence or Application, Virtue or Vice."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1752
Pleasure is "the secret Spring that actuates man"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1780
"The face is certainly the best index of the mind, and the passions as forcibly expressed by the features as by the words and gesture of the performer."
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
Date: 1780
"The mind, in my opinion, of every well-disposed man, is like a soft mark, or butt; many are the archers in this life, with their quivers full of speeches of every kind; but few amongst them aim aright: some stretch the cord too tight, and the arrow, sent forth with more force than is necessary, ...
preview | full record— Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)