Date: 1740
"My Mind, my Mind is a Kingdom to me!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1741
"Happy Souls, who keep such a sacred Dominion over their inferior and animal Powers, and all the Influences of Pride and secular interest, that the sensitive Tumults or these vicious Influences never rise to disturb the superior and better Operations of the reasoning Mind!"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1744
"TRAGEDY and COMEDY; the first fixes her Empire on the Passions, and the more exalted Contractions and Dilations of the Heart; the last, tho' not inferior (quotidem Science) holds her Rule over the less enobled Qualities and Districts of human Nature, which are call'd the Humours."
preview | full record— Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Date: 1745
"'I am too noble, and of too high a birth,' saith that excellent moralist, 'to be a slave to my body; which I look upon only as a chain thrown upon the liberty of my soul.'"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
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)
Date: 1745
"But what is most dishonourable of all is, for a man at once to discover a great genius and an ungoverned mind. Because that strength of reason and understanding he is master of gives him a great advantage for the government of his passions."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1745
"And therefore his suffering himself notwithstanding to be governed by them, shows that he hath too much neglected or misapplied his natural talent, and willingly submitted to the tyranny of those lusts and passions, over which nature had furnished him with abilities to have secured an easy conqu...
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
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)
Date: 1746
"For as those Things which affect our Senses, are always esteem'd the surest and most infallible Test of every Doctrine; so a more than common Regard to those is necessary in our Attempts for the Advancement of Medicine; which as it is only conversible with sensible Bodies, ought not to admit any...
preview | full record— Willan, Robert (fl. 1746-1757)
Date: Saturday, August 25, 1750
In "the seats of innocence and tranquility ... where I should see reason exerting her sovereignty over life, without any interruption from envy, avarice, or ambition, and every day passing in such a manner as the severest wisdom should approve."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)