Date: Friday, November 6. 1724.
"Where this Passion is Real, It will be the Sovereign of the Mind. It moulds the Soul to its own Purposes; and lends its own Eyes to the Understanding."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"If a man's Body be under confinement, or he be impotent in his Limbs, he is then deprived of his bodily Liberty: And for the same Reason, if his Mind be blinded by sottish Errors, and his Reason over-ruled by violent Passions; is not This likewise plainly as great a Slavery and as ...
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1745
"As in the humours of the body, so in the vices of the mind, there is one predominant which has an ascendant over us, and leads and governs us."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)