Date: 1696
"Pitty would not now at least /Have been a stranger to her Breast"
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1696
"No, for I have heard some say, Men are ne're less alone, then when alone. reason I suppose is this, because they have Crowds of Thoughts, that still per the Mind; which wou'd be like the Soul retired and free, thereby to enjoy sweet Repose, which nought but that can Grant."
preview | full record— Harris, Joseph (fl. 1684-1703)
Date: 1696
"Imagine two clocks or watches which agree perfectly ... Put now the soul and the body in place of these two clocks; their accordance may be brought about by one of these three ways."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1696
"But hold Leander, let no Seas nor Wind / Disturb the quiet Freehold of thy Mind."
preview | full record— Radcliffe, Alexander (b. c. 1653, d. in or before 1696)
Date: 1696
"For if we look through Reason's never erring Perspective, we then Survey their Souls, and view the Rubbish we were Chaffring for: And such I find, Hillaria's mind is made of."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"But there's no fault in her 1000 l. a year, and that's the Loadstone that attracts my heart--The Wise, and Grave, may tell us of strange Chimæra's call'd Virtues in a Woman, and that they alone are the best Dowry; but faith we younger Brothers are of another mind."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"I doubt, Old Gentleman, you have such a Torrent of Philosophy running throngh your Pericranium, that it has washt your Brains away."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Sir--Notwithstanding this provocation, I am calm; but were I like other Men, a Slave to Passion, shou'd not for-bear calling you Impertinent!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"He that strives not to Stem his Angers Tide, / Does a Mad Horse without a Bridle ride."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"How near are men to Brutes, when their unruly Passions break the Bounds of Reason?"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)