Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Spiritual laws by carnal power shall force / On every conscience; laws which none shall find / Left them inrolled, or what the Spirit within / Shall on the heart engrave."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1693
"Needless was written law, where none opprest; / The law of man was written in his breast."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1699
"Those that were without a Law were a Law unto themselves, doing by nature the things contained in the Law, which shows the Law written in their hearts"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1707
"There [in a softer mind] shall his sacred spirit dwell, / And deep engrave his law, / And every motion of our souls / To swift obedience draw."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1718
"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, w...
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1720
"For as in the Body Politick, the Prince, (whom Seneca calls the Soul of the Commonwealth.) receiveth no Passages of State, or false Ones, where there is Negligence, or Disability in those subjectate Inquirers, (whom Xenophon terms the Eyes and Ears of Kings.) In like Manner the Soul of Man being...
preview | full record— Hales, John (1584-1656)
Date: 1723, 1725
"AS Tapers languish at th' Approach of Day," and as the "Book of Fame" may be "Eraz'd and blotted," "So fully o'er the Soul may a lover's Influence reign, "That not one Rebel-Thought [its] Sway disdains"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1724, 1725
"[H]is Image was too deeply impress'd in her Mind, ever to banish it thence, tho' effac'd and blotted by the Memory of his Crimes"
preview | full record— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)
Date: 1741
"Early instruct your tender Youth / In Heav'n's unerring Law of Truth, / Engrave it on their Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1745
"They are plainly and explicitly published; easily understood; and in fair and legible characters writ in every man's heart; and the wisdom, reason, and necessity of them are readily discerned."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)