Date: 1695
"[T]he priests, every where, to secure their empire, having excluded reason from having any thing to do in religion"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1698
"But when Vice is varnish'd over with Pleasure, and comes in the Shape of Convenience, the case grows somewhat dangerous; for then the Fancy may be gain'd, and the Guards corrupted, and Reason suborn'd against it self."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"A well work'd Poem is a powerful piece of Imposture: It masters the Fancy, and hurries it no Body knows whither.--If therefore we would be govern'd by Reason let us stand off from the Temptation, such Pleasures can have no good Meaning."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
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: 1699
"Their Consciences bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing them or excusing them"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1700
"As the form of man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of a man"
preview | full record— Harrington, James (1611-1677)
Date: 1700
"The soul of government, as the true and perfect image of the soul of man, is every whit as necessarily religious as rational."
preview | full record— Harrington, James (1611-1677)
Date: 1700
"She who Elects a Monarch for Life, who gives him an Authority she cannot recall however he misapply it, who puts her Fortune and Person entirely in his Power; nay even the very desires of her Heart according to some learned Casuists, so as that it is not lawful to Will or Desire any thing but wh...
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)
Date: 1700
"Superiors indeed are too apt to forget the common Priviledges of Mankind; that their Inferiors share with them the greatest Benefits, and are as capable as themselves of enjoying the supreme Good; that tho' the Order of the World requires an Outward Respect and Obedience from some to others, yet...
preview | full record— Astell, Mary (1666–1731)