Date: 1764
Philosophy may overturn Reason's throne and strive "proudly in its place to plant her own"
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Date: 1764
Philosophy may be undermined, her empire thrown down, "By means of sense, from whom she holds the crown"
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Date: 1764
"The stars, who, by I know not what strange right, / Preside o'er mortals in their own despite, / Who, without reason, govern those who most / (How truly, judge from thence!) of reason boast, / And, by some mighty magic yet unknown, / Our actions guide, yet cannot guide their own."
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Date: 1764
"The moon, who holds o'er night her silver reign" is "Regent of tides, and mistress of the brain"
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Date: 1764?
"Whether we will or no, Through reason's court doth [the word lord] unquestion'd go"
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Date: 1764?
"Judge Reason view'd him with an eye of grace, / Look'd through his soul, and quite forgot his face"
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Date: 1765
"Thro' rooted vice my spirits fail, / Which o'er my heart an empire wins, / O let thy mercy countervail / To cover all our sins."
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Date: 1765
"Be ye not like to horse or mule, / That are not bless'd with reason's rule."
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Date: 1766
"Each of these words, implies, resistance; but, that of 'conquer', refers to victory over enemies; and is, generally, used in the literal sense: that of 'subdue', is more applicable to our passions; being, oftener, used in a figurative; and means, a bringing under subjection: that of 'overcome', ...
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Date: 1766
Love "leaves us not the liberty of choice; it commands in the beginning, as a master, and, reigns, afterwards, as a tyrant, till we are accustomed to its chains, by length of time; or, till they are broken by the efforts of powerful reason, or, the caprice of continued vexation."
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