Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"The Dominion of Man, in this little World of his own Understanding, being muchwhat the same, as it is in the great World of visible things: wherein his Power, however managed by Art and Skill, reaches no farther, than to compound and divide the Materials, that are made to his Hand; but can do no...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1691
"Can it be a Fault to chuse a better for a worse, and don't all the thinking World agree that this state we are now in, is but a Slavery to sence, a bondage to dull matter, which tedders us down like our Brother Brutes, where we are not only exposed to want and misery, but to all the Insults and ...
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"The Tongue is connexed by Veins to the Brain and Heart, by which Nature teacheth us, that it is to be govern'd by the Intellect, whose seat is in the head, so that it may agree with the Heart."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1697
"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)