Date: 1748, 1754
"[T]he Relation we stand in to God, will irradiate the Mind with the Light of Wisdom, and ennoble it with the Liberty and Dominion of Virtue."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"How supporting in such a Case, nay how preservative must it be to his Integrity, and what an Antidote against that Gloom and Fretfulness which are apt to invade the Mind in such Circumstances of Trial, to believe that infinite Wisdom and Goodness preside in the Universe."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"If we attend to that Curiosity, or prodigious Thirst of Knowledge, which is natural to the Mind in every Period of its Progress, and consider withal the endless Round of Business and Care, and the various Hardships to which the Bulk of Mankind are chained down, it is evident, that in this presen...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1748, 1754
"[I]t may be said of most Men, that their intellectual Organs are as much shut up and secluded from proper Nourishment and Exercise in that little Circle to which they are confined, as the bodily Organs are in the Womb."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1749
Truely happy are "those who can / Govern that little empire, Man"
preview | full record— Stepney, George (1663-1707)
Date: 1749
People may "Bridle their passions and direct their will"
preview | full record— Stepney, George (1663-1707)
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.]
Date: 1752
Pleasure is "the secret Spring that actuates man"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Worse than the other--Whom, thus robb'd of Pow'r. / His former Passions fatally devour!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]