Date: 1697
"You compare Cogitation in a Spirit, to Motion in a Body, and so Cessation from Thought in a a Spirit, must answer to Rest in a Body"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
A "thoughtless, senseless, lifeless Soul" is the "Carcase of a Soul"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"If a Body cease to move, and come to perfect rest, the Motion it had cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1698
"Contagion seize 'em, Mildews and Blasts destroy her Beauty, stamp her Face as deform'd as her Soul, for, a Plague on her, she's too handsom now."
preview | full record— Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)
Date: 1698
"From all which Considerations, (any One of which might suffice,) I may Safely and Evidently conclude, that, in point of Evidence of its Truth, and Stability of its Grounds, nothing can be any way comparable to the Light which strikes the Eye of our Understanding, by its steady Rays emitted from ...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"This Proposition, then, say we, is such, that our Understanding no sooner opens its Eye, to take a View of it, but it must assent to it, because of the Self-evident Identification of its Terms; whose Self-Evidence we do therefore make our Rule."
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"Lastly, As this pretended Necessity of Explicating, and Meditating, quite degrades yours from being the Genuin, First, and, consequently, the Right Rule of Knowing Truth; so it abets ours, and gives it a Clear Title to be such a Rule, since the Self-evidence of those First Truths, express'd by I...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"You have paid Your sad Respects to Her; be not now wanting to Your selves: but 'Gird up the Loins of Your Mind', and be Ye comforted!"
preview | full record— Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732)
Date: 1698
"The meaning is, he suspects our Souls are nothing but Organiz'd Matter. Or in plain English, our Souls are nothing but our Bodies."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)